Adjectives in -ly and their homomorphic adverbs: measuring the productivity of adjectival -ly

• Autores: Milagros Chao Castro
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The suffix -ly has usually been associated with the adverb word-class, since the majority of derivational adverbs present this suffix (Quirk et al. 1985: 438). However, the history of the adverbial suffix -ly, also known as -ly², reveals the existence of a homomorphic counterpart, -ly¹, which has been used to form new adjectives, and whose origin has given rise to the appearance of the abovementioned adverbial -ly. Thus, measuring the productivity of the adjectival suffix -ly¹ after Middle English is the main aim of this paper. However, as a consequence of proving the productivity of this adjectival suffix, and checking those pairs of homomorphic words consisting of an adjective and an adverb in -ly, I will also present a hypothesis according to which the origin of some apparently derivational adverbs in -ly is found in -ly¹ rather than in -ly² by means of a process of conversion with an already existing adjective in -ly¹.