Re: USAGE: "Laughingly":What part of speech is it?
From: | Robin Turner <robin@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 4, 1998, 22:49 |
Sally Caves wrote:
> 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."
It's also very Lojban -
ko'a cadzu klama le zarci
he/she/it walking-type-of-go/come [to] the store
Robin Turner