ABSTRACT

In the past three chapters, category neutrality has been sought in bare-plural and mass nouns (Chapter 3), various verbal valence alternations (Chapters 3, 4), and predicative phrases (Chapter 5). In this chapter, the focus will be on a smaller set of words, specifically, certain nouns that have an adverbial component to their meaning. It will be seen that these nouns exhibit category neutrality with respect to their ordinary-noun category and special adverbial category.