On the Categories and Co-occurrence Orders of Manner Adverbs
Shi Jin-shen · Linguistics Study · 2003
Manner adverbs, which represent conceptual functions, can be said to reflect the state or the manner of actions from the semantic respect and serve a function to mainly modify some verbs from the grammatical respect. This paper classifies manner adverbs from meaning and structure. According to the cases collected from the data of more than 30,000,000 characters, we propose six kinds of co-occurrence orders and rules, and make explanation with the proximity principle and the linear order principle. In addition, questions are discussed about alternative co-occurrence orders and the mechanisms of grammaticalization of manner adverbs.