ADVéRBIOS MODALIZADORES EM -MENTE: UMA DESCRI O DE PROPRIEDADES SINTáTICO-SEM NTICAS

The objective of this paper is to present a description of syntactic and semantic properties of modal adverbs in -ly, especially those that occur on the margins of the sentences (beginning and end). In a corpus constituted of interviews of the yellow pages of VEJA, and based on Castilho, Castilho (1993), Neves (2000), Ilari (2007), it was observed that this type of adverb has different semantic values and a varied syntactic statute, with incidence on the sentence (sentence adverb) or on specific constituents (constituent adverb).