THE SYNTAX OF MANNER ADVERBS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN

This thesis aims at presenting the syntax and interpretation of manner adverbs in English and Romanian in the Minimalist Framework. It is a comparative study of manner adverbs within the larger class of predicational adverbs in English and Romanian. This work is divided into five chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. Choosing the Framework of Analysis; 3. The Syntax and Interpretation of Manner Adverbs in English and Romanian; 4. English and Romanian Sentence Adverbs – Syntax and Interpretation; 5. Conclusions.