Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Raymond Brown gov ra:
> >Nik Taylor wrote:
>  [....]
>  >Also, I'd like to say that I frequently forget that words like "here"
>  >and "now" are considered adverbs, when I asked the question, I was
>  >thinking of adverbs of manner, and I was trying to imagine how something
>  >like "towards quickly" or "from suddenly" could exist.
>
>  Well, yes, I guess preps. governing adverbds of manner are pretty unlikely.
>  As you say, what would they mean?  (But I bet some conlang somwhere has
>  them  :)
>
theorhetically you could do this in my language, but i think it would sound
somewhat strange, e.g.:

da-kwr~
towards-fast

where position would indicate that it is an adverb and it would probably mean
"acceleratingly". a stranger yet possible example could be

pa-fadondr~
near-shy

meaning almost or somewhat shy.  again, this is unlikely, but grammatical.

Joe Mondello