Adverb Part-of-Speech Role

An Adverb Part-of-Speech Role is a part-of-speech role for a content word that can modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

• AKA: Adv, RB.
• Context:
  • It can be associated to:
    • an Adverb Terminal Word.
    • an Adverb Base Word.
  • It can be a relatively heterogeneous Word Class.
  • It can refer to things as time, place and reason (e.g. now, yesterday, here, everywhere, therefore)
  • It can be a Linking Adverb that expresses connections between sentences (e.g. however, so, nevertheless).
  • It can be an intensifier in Adjective Phrases or Adverb Phrases, or as Adverbials.
  • It can be derived by an Adverb Formation Process.
    • It can be Derived from Adjectives. (e.g. slowly). These can generally be descriptive and can be compared for degree.
• Example(s):
  • SLOWLY: I ran slowly. (Verb modifier)
  • EXTREMELY: Cytolysin is an extremely potent protein. (Adjective modifier).
• See: Verb, Adjective.

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References

2009

• Penn Treebank Project.
  • Adverb - RB
    • This category includes most words that end in ly as well as degree words like quite, too, and very, posthead modifiers like enough and indeed (as in good enough, very well indeed), and negative markers like not, n't and never.
  • Adverb, comparative - RBR
    • Adverbs with the comparative ending er but without a strictly comparative meaning, like later in We can always come by later should simply be tagged as RB.

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