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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Main Author: Klaus Grübl
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/4505