SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL GROUPS
SUMMARY
1 Just as adverbs express many meanings, they also realize many kinds of syntactic functions:
• as Adjunct in the clause;
• as stance adjuncts associated with whole clauses;
• as connectives between clauses.
• as modifiers, and complements in AdjGs, AdvGs, NGs, VGs and PPs;
2 Some adverbs have fixed position; others are mobile between initial, middle and end positions.
3 Some adverbs vary their meaning according to their functional role, so just may denote an event near to speech time, We’ve just finished, or be used to intensify, as in That’s just fine.
