Romain Delhem
@drdeslemmes.bsky.social
Associate professor of English linguistics at Université Paris Nanterre. Syntactician and Construction grammar enthusiast.
Loves random language features, cringe dance moves, board game nights, and Oxford commas.
Loves random language features, cringe dance moves, board game nights, and Oxford commas.
I got up real early, worked hard, but no one took me serious: Why I believe most English "flat adverbs" are really just adjectives. Feedback welcome!
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English flat adverbs and adjectives – ELAD-SILDA
The boundaries and the complementarity of the adjective and adverb word classes in English are blurred in standard English by the existence of a limited number of flat adverbs, i.e. adverbs that are h...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I got up real early, worked hard, but no one took me serious: Why I believe most English "flat adverbs" are really just adjectives. Feedback welcome!
publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/i...
publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/i...