Table 2. Distributional expansion of Advall with respect to syntactic context types
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Period
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Cop__
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__Adj
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__Part
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__Adv
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__PP
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__NP
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__Quote
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__V
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OE
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X (be)
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X
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X
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X
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ME
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X (be)
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X
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X
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X
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X
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EModE
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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ModE
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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PDE
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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The various columns here are as follows (using examples from B&T):
Cop__ (after a copula)Now the question is whether other determinatives such as both or each are all creepy like this.
& hie wœron ealle gefylled flurh flagife flœs Halgan Gastes
and they were all filled through that gift of-that Holy Ghost
(note here the ge- prefix on fylled, which suggests a complete meaning, the present-day fiilled up.)
__Adj (before an adjective)
fla andwyrde Iudas, swa swa he eall cene wœs
then answered Judas, as he all bold was
__Part (before a participle)
seo wurDfulle byrgen flœs De him eallum fluhte eall bifigende wœs
that worshipful tomb, as to-them all appeared, all rocking was
__Adv (before an adverb)
Al priuely behinde his bak
all secretly behind his back
__PP (before a preposition phrase)
Se kyng ... lai flœre eall ofer Pentecostewuce
The king ...lay there all through Pentecost week
__NP (before a noun phrase)
one of the liveliest, merriest girls in the world, was, on a sudden, become all gloom and melancholy.
__Quot (introducing a quotation)
And he’s all ‘Hook me up with free food’.
_Verb (before a tensed verb)
and the guywas scared and he all jumped and snatched his news article
References
Buchstaller, I., & Traugott, E. C. (2006). The lady was al demonyak: historical aspects of Adverb all. English Language and Linguistics, 10(2), 345–370. doi:10.1017/S136067430600195X
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