THE THIRD WAY: Prepositional Adverbials in the Diachrony of Romance (Part One)

Hummel, Martin

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“…braconi, carpone, ginocchione, etc.). This supports Hummel's (2019a;2019b) hypothesis that PA adverbials are variants of preexisting adverbials. However, Diez feels that the use of the preposition "expresses the original relation".…”

Section: Romance (Martin Hummel)supporting

confidence: 82%

“…All this clearly shows that the linguists' perception of adverbs in Romance has changed since Diez. In the end, it appears that the fundamental article of our project, "The third way" (Hummel 2019a;2019b), should probably have been named "The first way", at least in two senses. PA-patterns are "first in the specific diachrony of Romance, that is, the first genuinely Romance way" and they are also "first regarding importance in the origins, that is, the main means of forming adverbs, at least in spoken language", if we focus on the language transition from spoken Latin to spoken Romance.…”

Section: Romance (Martin Hummel)mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The patterns used in the conceptual domains of place and time do not compete with the PA-pattern, which is mainly used for modification in terms of manner, quantity, intensity and discourse functions (e.g., epistemic pour de vrai, cf. Féron 2007 andHummel 2019a;2019b). While sincèrement, de façon sincère, and avec sincérité are direct and mutual competitors, adverbs of time or place belong to separate functional domains.…”

Section: French (Martin Hummel and Inka Wissner)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the historical priority of adverbial adjectives in the Indo-European tradition (Hummel 2013), it seems that the development "adverbial adjective > PA adverbial" is a path that diachronically appears in the Latin-Romance transition (see Section 2, below). In a second step, Hummel (2019a;2019b) has checked the morphological and/or semantic equivalents for the 56 PA adverbials in other Romance languages and varieties: Catalan, French, Friulian, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Sardinian. The spot check provided overwhelming evidence for corresponding PA-patterns, e.g., in the case of 'dry': 1…”

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“…More details in this regard may be found in Hummel (2019a;2019b), who discusses several theoretical aspects of PA-patterns: PA-patterns as a systematic analytic alternative to Types A and B in the Latin-Romance tradition (in the process of "analyticization"), their usage in the oral vs. written tradition, their role in processes of language elaboration ("Sprachausbau") and, especially, standardization, as well as their emergence through colloquialization of adverbs in the speech of educated people.…”

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Prepositional adverbials in the diachrony of Romance: a state of the art

Hummel¹,

Chircu

Sánchez

et al. 2019

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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The paper provides a state of the art in research on prepositional adverbials in Romance that combine a preposition with an adjective, e.g., Sp. en breve ‘in short’ (= PA-pattern). It therefore reviews the existing bibliography on Romance in general, Latin, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. The theoretical background is the hypothesis that the PA-pattern could have played a relevant role as a third way of forming adverbials in the diachrony of Romance, paralleling adverbial adjectives (e.g., breve used as an adverb: hablar breve) and derived adverbs (e.g., brevemente). The review confirms that the PA-pattern is marginal in (written) Latin but rises abruptly in early Romance, suggesting a “hidden” past in spoken Latin. This is corroborated by the fact that similar PA-patterns are used in all Romance languages. However, these insights have often to be deduced from marginal observations on the adverbials in use. As yet, research has not systematically studied the role of PA adverbials in the diachrony of Romance.

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Section: Romance (Martin Hummel)supporting

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Section: Romance (Martin Hummel)mentioning

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Section: French (Martin Hummel and Inka Wissner)mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Prepositional adverbials in the diachrony of Romance: a state of the art

Hummel¹,

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Sánchez

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Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo

Lavale-Ortiz

2020

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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The present paper has as its aim to show the semantic evolution of the form fijo through which it has acquired increasingly pragmatic uses and functions until it became an epistemic marker. Within this grammaticalization process, the cognitive procedures of metaphor and metonymy, as well as the general mechanism of subjectification, explain the semantic change experienced by this unit thanks to its appearance in certain contextual patterns which have conventionalized the epistemic value. Taking de fijo que, de fijo, and a punto fijo/fixo as our reference, the corpus study reveals that the variants of fijo code both the speaker’s epistemic commitment and evidential contents, even though each one of them conceptualizes the scene from a different perspective.

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Investigating pan-Romance prepositional adverbials

Wissner

2023

RRO

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Complex adverbials built with the pattern ‘Preposition + Adjective (PA)’ such as Portuguese em especial ‘especially’ or Romanian de sigur ‘for sure’ display a remarkable frequency and pan-Romance consistency. Nevertheless, this pattern has been largely neglected by research. The ‘Third Way’ project intends to fill this gap, arguing that PAs are a relevant third way of constructing adverbials, aside with short adverbs and adverbs in -mente. It subjects prepositional adverbials to a historico-varietal analysis in a comparative pan-Romance approach to trace their trajectory from Latin up to now. This article presents an enquiry design for field research that allows examining the adverbials’ current usage and ongoing change in substandard varieties of all major Romance languages. The results are meant to help reconstruct the diachrony of PAs in Romance, especially in view of the spoken vernacular tradition.

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THE THIRD WAY: Prepositional Adverbials in the Diachrony of Romance (Part One)

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Prepositional adverbials in the diachrony of Romance: a state of the art

Prepositional adverbials in the diachrony of Romance: a state of the art

A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo

Investigating pan-Romance prepositional adverbials

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