Derivational Versus Phrasal Adverbials of Manner

• Authors: Daria Protopopescu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper compares the usage of derivational and phrasal adverbial expressions of manner in English and Romanian. It also points to possible translational and learning problems due to selection peculiarities in the two languages. Both English as well as some of the Romance languages (among others French, Italian, Spanish), use both simple adverbs of manner (e.g. well) and derivational adverbs formed by adding a suffix to an adjective (e.g. poorly vs -mente adverbs in Romance).

Keywords

EN

manner adverbs; phrasal adverbials of manner; derivational adverbials of manner

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-35

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Daria Protopopescu

• University of Bucharest

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0004