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A-Z 19(Merritt 1976:333)Additional evidence is provided by adjacency pairs with preferred second parts (preference). ( also discourse analysis)ReferencesHeritage, J. 1984. Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge.Levinson, S. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge.Merritt, M. 1976. On questions following answers in service encounters. LSoc 5. 315–57.Schegloff, E. 1968. Sequencing in conversational openings. AA 70.1075–95. (Repr. in J.J.Gumperzand D.Hymes (eds), Directions in sociolinguistics. New York. 346–80.)——1984. On some questions and ambiguities. In J.M.Atkinson and J.Heritage (eds), Structures ofsocial action. Cambridge. 28–52.Schegloff, E. and H.Sacks. 1973. Opening and closing. Semiotica 8. 289–327.conversation analysisadjectival adverbAdjective used adverbially (e.g. Caroline reads fast vs the fast reader). Adjectivaladverbs have comparative and superlative forms like adjectives (e.g. Caroline reads thefastest of all), while pure adverbs do not (e.g. here, today).adjective [Lat. trans. of Grk epítheton ‘thatwhich is added’]Grammatical category (part of speech) that is used attributively with nouns (a whitefence) or is governed by a copular verb (The fence is white). In some languages,adjectives may also exhibit valence (e.g. Ger. sicher sein+gen. ‘to be sure of[something]’), be subject to agreement (gender, number, case), and/or havecomparative and superlative forms (degree). In German and other Germanic languages,such as Old English, there is a distinction between strong (also: pronominal) and weak(also: nominal) inflection of adjectives. The use of the different types of inflectioncorresponds to the principle of ‘mono-inflectional co-operation,’ that is, the strong(determining) form is used whenever the syntactic form of the noun phrase that ismodified by the adjective is not marked by any other (pronominal) elements, such as thearticle, or by gender: Ger. grüner Apfel ‘green apple’ vs der grüne Apfel ‘the green