Table 3: Characteristic features of circumstantial adverbs

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


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