VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART B, 2024, pp. 239 – 254 Full text (En)
Author: Simona Mateva
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
The paper focuses on the adverb still as a low adverb in English and Bulgarian, referencing Cinque’s (1999) proposal of a fixed universal inventory of adverbs. By analysing sentence examples from different corpora, the current work investigates whether the position of still/все още in English and Bulgarian corresponds to the position proposed by Cinque. Additionally, the paper explores the semantic complexity of still and whether its three senses–aspectual, adversative, and marginal–correspond to separate maximal projections. The results suggest that still is a low adverb in both languages. However, despite its complex semantics, it is not a specifier of three separate functional heads.
Key words: low adverbs, functional head, adverb hierarchy, aspectual still, adversative still, marginality still
