Short Temporal Adverbials in English and Macedonian – Semantics, Morphology and Sentence Position

Abstract

This paper presents a study of short temporal adverbials in English and Macedonian. It includes their semantic, morphological
and syntactic (sentence position) description. The study and the findings are corpus based, whereas the corpus is composed of
Macedonian literary texts translated by native English speakers. The findings aim at presenting: a) the semantic complexities of
Macedonian temporal adverbs through the usage of English as meta-language, b) the morphological and phrasal forms within which
these short adverbs occur, and c) the differences/similarities in occupying sentence positions. The study should aid language
professionals of different profiles in both, English and Macedonian (theoretical linguists, language teachers, translators, etc.).