Re: aspects / nasal consonants / meanings
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 11, 2005, 0:44 |
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In a message dated 3/10/2005 12:27:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
salut_vous_autre@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>Are there languages where adverbs inflect or agree with something?
According to RMW Dixon in _Australian Languages_, in some languages, manner
adverbs agree with the subject of the sentence in case (i.e., the adverb is
marked as ergative or absolutive), and in others, the adverbs agree with the verb
in transitivity.
Doug