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ADV: adverb

ΑDV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for place, time, manner or quantity. They may also modify adjectives and other adverbs, as in πολύ έξυπνος / poli eksipnos ‘very clever’, πολύ αργά / poli arga ‘very late.ADV’ respectively.

Adverbs are formed productively from adjectives and participles in -μένος with the ending : δίκτυο.Noun, δικτυακός.Adjective, δικτυακά.Adverb ‘web, of-the-web, web(manner)’.

Some adverbs seem to form phrasal verbs (rare phenomenon in Greek), such as βάζω μπρος/μπροστά / vazo bros/brosta ‘to start an engine/to start operating’. Although they function as particles in a multiword expression, they are assigned the tag ADV and the multiword status of the expression is accounted for in syntax.

Adverbs may be assigned the PronType feature:

Αdverbs may be specified for the feature NumType, e.g. άπαξ / apaks ‘once’.

Adverbs may bear inflectional features specifying the feature Degree:

Multiword adverbs:

Non-inflecting verb forms ending in -όντας, -ώντας (adverbial participles) share properties and usage of adverbs and verbs and are assigned the tag VERB, the specification VerbForm=Conv and are tagged for Aspect and Voice.

μετά and εντός may appear with a noun in the genitive case: the first denotes accompaniment, e.g., μετά ληστείας / meta listias “together with a robbery” while both are structures inherited from older versions of the language, e.g. εντός δευτερολέπτων / entos defterolepton “within minutes”. In all these cases μετά and εντός are assigned the tag ADV.

The adverb εντάξει often appears in the role of an interjection. In these cases it retains the ADV PoS and is related with the other elements in the sentence with the discourse relation.

Examples

References

Holton, David, Peter Mackridge & Irene Philippaki-Warburton. 1997. Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language. Routledge, London 1997; reprinted 1999, 2002 & 2004

Mackridge, Peter. 1985. The Modern Greek Language. A Descriptive Analysis of Standard Modern Greek. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1985. (Paperback edn, 1987, reprinted 1989 & 1992)

Κλαίρης, Χρήστος & Γεώργιος Μπαμπινώτης. 2001. Γραμματική της Νέας Ελληνικής Τόμος Γ’. 2η έκδοση. Αθήνα: Ελληνικά Γράμματα.

Τζάρτζανος, Αχιλλέας, 2002. Νεοελληνική Σύνταξις της Κοινής Δημοτικής. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Κυριακίδη. σελ. 225.

https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/


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