SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY OF THE ADVERB IN PHRASE STRUCTURES OF BP

THE TRADITIONAL TAXONOMY IN DISCUSSION

Abstract

This article aims to point out some considerations on the question of taking the definition that GT makes of the “class of adverbs” to the evaluative dimension. Cegalla (2008, p.259) says that the “[...] adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of the verb, the adjective, and the adverb itself.” In Neves (2018, p.360), “[...] the class of adverbs is quite heterogeneous, and the important thing is to observe the role that the various subclasses of these elements can play in the various linguistic uses”, and such an observation is not commonly observed. The Traditional Grammar considers it, henceforth GT, which adopts a taxonomy that excludes language uses asa guideline for language studies classifying the adverb as an invariable word class. Therefore, linguistic uses are updated and grammatical studies from a non-traditional perspective concerned with reflecting the language in its real uses have questioned this definition. A linguistic attitude test was applied among students of the Languages course in order to observe how the informant’s classified words that function as adverbs but which, traditionally, are not admitted as belonging to the class of words, that is, lexical items that are not categorized as adverbs in the GT canon. Thus, the problem investigated will be the speakers' perceptionregarding the adverb's semantic and functional mobility. As a methodology, we used field research, with data collected by sampling, based on the theoretical foundation of the sociolinguistic analysis model.