Mareeva, Y ADVERBS AS WORD CLASS CATEGORY IN MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(3):104–111. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.759


VI International Scientific Conference in memory of Professor T. G. Malchukova "Russia and Greece: Dialogues of Cultures"

ADVERBS AS WORD CLASS CATEGORY IN MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE

Mareeva
Yu. A. 		Lomonosov Moscow State University
Keywords:
Adverb
word class category
Hellenistic grammars
Modern Greek language
traditional formal descriptive grammar
functional-communicative grammar
classifi cation and systematization of adverbs
functional-grammar fi eld		 Summary: The aim of the present article is to summarize the data about adverbs as a word class in modern Greek language. The study set the following tasks: to consider the defi nitions of the adverb given by diff erent authors; to analyze semantic classifi cations of adverbs in traditional formal descriptive grammar and functional communicative grammar; to identify the basic problems of the description of adverbs; and to diff erentiate the notions of adverb and adverbial. The study draws on the functional communicative and comparative methods and takes into account the previous achievements of Russian linguists. The paper includes the review of the works of modern Greek linguists (G. Babiniotis, T. Nakas), as well as the linguists of the fi rst half of the XX century (A. Tzartzanos, M. Triantafi llidis). The issue is being investigated from the historical prospective with the help of the diachronical approach: the authors analyze the defi nitions of the notion of adverb and the systematization of various semantic groups of adverbs in the early grammar texts of the Greek language (Hellenistic grammarian Dionysius Thrax, the Stoic school). The problem of streamlining such a complicated and diverse grammatical word class as adverbs still remains relevant. The novelty of the research lies in the fi rst attempts to systemically describe Greek adverbs in comparison with Russian adverbs. Modern linguists came to the conclusion that adverbs as a word class have a fi eld structure. Every fi eld has a center (nuclear zone) and peripheral parts. This gives a possibility to systematize all the adverbs, adverbial expressions, polyfunctional lexems on a non-controversial basis taking into account their semantics and syntactical function, and identify their nuclear, perinuclear and peripheral zones.



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