1. Lexico-grammatical meaning | Name certain circumstances attending the action as a whole |
2. Typical stem-building affixes | -ward(s) suffix, -ice suffix |
3. Morphological categories | Only certain circumstantial adverbs denoting indefinite time and place (soon, late, often, near, far) can form degrees of comparison |
4. Typical patterns of combinability | Modify verbs, sometimes nouns or words of nominal characters, occupy different places in the sentence |
5. Syntactic functions | Adverbial modifier of time, place, cause, purpose, condition; attribute |
Here is the list of adverbs which are used to indicate the circumstances in which an action takes place [16, 292]:
Accidentally
Privately
Alone
Publicly
Artificially
Regardless
Automatically
Retail
Bodily
Scientifically
Collectively
Secretly
Commercially
Solo
Deliberately
Specially
Directly
Symbolically
Duly
Wholesale
First-class
Full-time
Illegally
Independently
Indirectly
Individually
Innocently
Instinctively
Involuntarily
Jointly
Legally
Logically
Mechanically
Naturally
Officially
Openly
Overtly
Part-time
Personally
Politically
Chapter 3. Syntagmatic valency of adverbs and its actualization in speech