Evaluative adverbs - a large and open class of adverbs that express the attitude of the speaker towards the information she is conveying - can systematically modify gradable adjectives as well as complete sentences. The different positions are associated with a clear difference in meaning: (1) a. Maxwell is { surprisingly remarkably shockingly } tall. b. { Surprisingly Remarkably Shockingly }, Maxwell is tall. The sentences in (1a) do not entail those in (1b) (Morzycki 2004, Nouwen 2005): if we were expecting Maxwell to be tall, but just not that tall, we could utter (1a) but not (1b).
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