Sentence Adverbs

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Tue Aug 11 18:41:47 EDT 1998


In the Iliad I keep running into things that upset the tidy little system I
have developed for analyzing Greek syntax. A recent example is the sentence
adverb. This is an adverb which modifies a sentence rather than some
particular word. 

I don't like sentence adverbs, they don't diagram well.  Do we really have to
accept the existence of sentence adverbs or can we relegate them to the status
of UFO's. 

I have a regrettable habit of trying to connect adverbials (functional
category) and adjectivals (another functional category) to a particular
nominal (functional category) or verbal (functional category). The idea of
sentence adverbs really throws a monkey wrench in all of this. Do I need to
scrap everything and start over?   

-- 
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062

Postscript

Note the chaismus in the sentence starting " I have a regrettable . . .".



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