adverbial
- noun
- /ædˈvɜrbiəl/
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adverbial
- In the sentence 'She quickly ran to the store', 'quickly' serves as an adverbial that modifies the verb 'ran'.
- illocutionary adverbials
- temporal adverbials
- tense temporal adverbials
Examples
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As I showed above, the use of prepositional phrases as adverbials had its beginnings in Latin and was intensively developed at an early stage in spoken Latin.
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The illocutionary adverbials are treated similarly.
Academic text (2006) -
By contrast, after by itself is going to have the adverbial function comparable to after words.
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In 30, in 1914 is a frame-setting sentence adverbial outside the scope of used to.
Academic text (2006) -
Regarding the nominal portion of our adverbials, two more issues must be mentioned.
Academic text (1997) -
After all, these adverbials have homophonous counterparts that function to modify some constituent within the proposition.
Academic text (2006) -
First, it should be noted that not all adverbials whose head noun designates a body part belong to the class being analyzed here.
Academic text (1997) -
In sum: the data show that all four Ibero-Romance languages possess a class of posture and movement adverbials, and that to a large extent they share the same peculiarities.
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Perhaps they are right, but if these adverbials are analyzed as encoding both procedural and conceptual information, this problem disappears.
Academic text (2006) -
Thus, it is unreasonable to conclude that illocutionary indicators are procedural while illocutionary adverbials are conceptual.
Academic text (2006)
Compounds
- Formal
A word or phrase that shows something unexpected compared with the main idea
A group of words that says when something will happen or what must happen first, often starting with if
- Specialized
A word that shows how someone does something, like quickly or quietly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word adverbial comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and verbum 'word', the same root behind adverb. So an adverbial as a noun is a word or group of words that works like an adverb and gives extra information about when, where, or how.
