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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Application to Italian

Adverbs are very similar to the adjective in that, in general, they behave similarly with respect to the verb as the adjective does with respect to the noun.

``Una parola dolce'' A/ns
versus
``Parlare dolcemente'' B/

In traditional Italian grammar, adverbs are subdivided into different subcategories on the basis of their semantic value: manner, time, place, quantity, comparative, affirmative, negative, relative/interrogative, etc.

In corpus tagging and dictionary encoding, not all these types are distinguished.