Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction - Adverbs and adverbials: Categorial issues -- I Delimitational approaches -- 1 Consistency of the class -- The incoherence of the English adverb class -- The subcategorization of English adverbs: A feature-based clustering approach -- 2 Margins of the class -- Proteus: Adverbial multi-word expressions in Italian and their cognate counterparts in -mente -- Prenominal adverbs in German? The cases of auf and zu -- II Classificational approaches -- 3 Adverbial scope: beyond the low / high dichotomy -- 'Sentence adverbs' don't exist! -- Formal and functional features of modal adverbs in French and Modern Greek -- Different types of subject-oriented adverbials in French and in Mandarin Chinese: A contrastive study -- 4 The case of domain adverb(ial)s -- Domain adverbials and morphology: The rivalry between -mäßig and -technisch in German -- Framing, segmenting, indexing: Towards a functional account of Romance domain adverbs in written texts -- List of contributors -- Index