Eckhard Bick - VISL

Deictic adverbs refer to discourse place and time, using "real" and not text context.
Like operator adverbs, deictic adverbs can neither be pre-modified by intensifier
adjects nor post-modified by PPs. They can, however, appear as "subjects", this
being cited as a distinctive trait in some grammars: hoje e ontem tem sido dias muito
agradáveis 63 .
More ordinary functional roles for deictic adverbs are those of adverbial
adjunct and adverbial complement where they replace ADVPs in a "pronominal"
fashion. From a disambiguation perspective the non-modifiability allows CG-rules
like:
REMOVE (@>A) (0 ) (1 )
Discard the preadjectal reading for intensifiers if they are followed by a deictic
REMOVE (@AN ‘the’
dúvida [dúvida] N F S @SUBJ> ‘doubt’
$,
porém [porim] ADV @ADVL> ‘however’
$,
persiste [persistir] V PR 3S IND VFIN S:2207 @FMV ‘remains’
63 In my parser, I retain an adverbial analysis in these cases, both because some deictics (directives like praqui and
daqui) do not seem to have the subject option, and because there is an alternative impersonal predicative analysis, as the
viability of the truncated sentence shows tem side dias muito agradáveis, as well as the asterisc-icity of subjectpronominalisation:
*Eles tem sido dias muito agradáveis.
64 In Portuguese grammars, expressions like connective adverbs, referential adverbs and anaphorical adverbs cover
more or less the same concept.
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