On the rise of domain adverbials in Italian: the history of the -mente parlando construction
This paper investigates the history of -mente parlando, a construction that can be used in modern Italian either as a style disjunct (e. g. rigorosamente parlando ‘strictly speaking’) or as a domain adverbial (e. g. economicamente parlando ‘economically speaking’). This functional difference will be...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2018-12-01
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Series: | Linguistik Online |
Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/4505 |