%0 Journal Article %T Adv¨¦rbios modalizadores discursivos, adv¨¦rbios de coment¨¢rio avaliativos ou palavras modais?: um estudo comparativo das descri£¿£¿es gramaticais do item lexical adv¨¦rbio em portugu¨ºs e alem£¿o %A Salgado %A Jana¨ªna Lopes %J Pandaemonium Germanicum %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1982-88372012000100009 %X the aim of this article is to present contrastively the different types of grammatical categorization of the lexical item adverb in a brazilian and in two german grammars. it points out the complexity of describing the adverb as a unique grammatical class due to its heterogeneous nature. three types of grammatical categorization were chosen to illustrate this complexity: discursive modal adverbs (castilho 2010), comment adverbs (duden 2006) and modal words (helbig & buscha 2001). %K grammar %K word classes %K classification %K adverbs %K modal words. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1982-88372012000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en