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I was wondering where an adverb should (or could) be placed in the passive present perfect progressive in English.

I have been being carefully tickled.

OR

I have been carefully being tickled.

OR

I have carefully been being tickled.

An alternative position of an adverb is after the lexical verb, but I do not think that it is the only possibility.

I have been being tickled carefully.

Please provided references and/or sources if possible.

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Adverb niching is quite complex and variable. It depends more on the (type of) adverb than the specific verbal construction. – jlawler Jan 2 at 19:48
This question seems to be specifically about English, why not to ask it at ELU.SE? – bytebuster Jan 3 at 0:56
@bytebuster: so I realised, so I posted a topic there as well. I suppose this one might be closed then! – Bram Vanroy Jan 3 at 8:39
@BramVanroy Please don't crosspost. Wait a few days and if you don't receive no answer, flag your own post for migration remembering to edit it to fit the new site. – Alenanno♦ Jan 13 at 13:13
@bytebuster Questions about single languages are On Topic here as long as the question is asked/answered from a Linguistic point of view. – Alenanno♦ Jan 13 at 13:14
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closed as off topic by bytebuster, kaleissin, Alenanno♦ Jan 13 at 13:53

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