Positional Analysis of Temporal Adverbials in Macedonian and English – the Case of Macedonian (The Possibility of Adverbial WO Preferences in a Free WO Language)

Abstract

Macedonian is a south-Slavic analytical language and displays a free WO sentential model, with an objective general scheme of SVO and a major role of the functional sentence perspective in the lining of constituents. Adverbials, especially time adverbials, are known to be extremely mobile (even in English, which is a configurational language), but still they mirror a certain pattern of adverbials in general or even sub-patterns of their own. In this paper, the findings of a comparative corpus-based research of the position of time adverbials in English and Macedonian are presented. The accent is on the definite results in the patterns of positioning temporal adverbials in Macedonian, as well as the TA positional correlation in both languages, English and Macedonian.