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Adverb-marking in coordinate constructions 189
b. …if he could were a gowne and a tipet cumlie, and haue hys crowne shorne
faire and roundlie … (Ascham 1570)
c. …but Natheles he would the point should be lesse & more fauorably handled,
not euen fully plain & directly, but that the matter should be touched a slope
craftely (More 1513)
d. …Therefore whensoeuer your words will not make a smooth dactil, ye must
alter them or their situations … or if the word be polysillable to deuide him,
and to make him serue by peeces, that he could not do whole and entierly.
(Puttenham 1589)
e. And thus by maister Edward Diar, vehement swift & passionatly.
(Puttenham 1589)
f. … and many times this Silver Lace is not onely slightly and deceitfully made
… and the silk false and deceitfully dyed, which makes the Lace turne black
and tarnish (Violet 1661)
g. That the Coronation Oath makes the King; which is a most gross as well as
dangerous Mistake; the King being as perfect and compleatly King before his
Coronation as after (Apology 1684)
Some of the examples in (17), such as (f), appear ambiguous, possibly allowing
an interpretation adj and adv adj, whereby the item in the first conjunct is an
adjective rather than a deadjectival adverb. Given the context, however, an adverb
interpretation does seem more likely; highly ambiguous sentences were omitted
from this study. In some cases, such as (17c), it may be that the writer chose a zero
form in order to avoid three ly-adverbs in sequence; however, there are many other
instances in texts of sequences of several ly-adverbs. In addition, such a motivation
would not account for the very similar (17e). We shall return in Section 3 to
the question of motivation for the choice of this structural type, but it may be that
just as the repetition of -ly was felt to be unpleasing in immediate sequence, it may
have been felt to be unpleasing or at least redundant in coordinate structures. This
principle, if it was indeed operative, would of course have been in direct conflict
with the symmetry principle suggested in Section 2.1.
. X-ly and Y
The structure type X-ly and Y has, as far as I know, gone unnoticed in the literature,
unlike the previous type. In the example in (18), one might suspect an attempt
to achieve a pleasing symmetry, in that the preceding coordinate structure
wel and ornately is rhythmically almost the mirror-image.
(18) And by and by somewhat louder, he rehersed them the same matter againe
in other order and other wordes, so wel and ornately, & natheles so euidently
and plaine (More 1513)