Re: USAGE: "Laughingly":What part of speech is it?

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Gerald Koenig wrote:

> I'd like to know a little more about the grammar of a gerund that is
> changed into an adverb . I'm going to make a gender changer that changes
> a root or infinitive verb to a corresponding adverb for vector tense.
> I want to say things like,
>
> He goes walkingly to the store.
I really love "he goes walkingly to the store."  It is SOOOOO Teonaht!
Okay, it's not really equivalent, but in T. you can say: "he at walking
swifts to the store," or "he at speaking glibbed to his friends."

A lot of these are what I'd call "Tom Swifts":

"We have to read _Moby Dick_," Tom said wailingly (or Tom wailed).

>
> Obviously this isn't great english, but for some reason,
>
> He said laughingly that he didn't mean it.
>
> seems ok.
>
> Any information about these  gerund-adverbs would help me.
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
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