Re: Interlinears for toma heylm

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

>         I like the fact that all oblique cases are shown by a prefix, whereas
> the accusative is shown by a suffix. It sounds good to me at least.
Which makes sense, kinda -- the direct grammatical cases receive
one kind of morphology, while role-indicating cases like the dative
and instrumental receive another.  Interesting, certainly.

> > That leaves "arya", "here".  It's an adverb.  Adverbs in toma heylm don't
> > decline or take particles.  Do adverbs in natlangs ever inflect?
>
>         I don't know of a natlang that inflect adverbs, but that doesn't mean
> that it's impossible. One of my first conlangs inflected adverbs
> depending on the part of speech they completed.
Adverbs in Degaspregos are sometimely doubly inflected.  They
are first inflected for part of speech, and when they modify an
adjective which is itself modifying a noun, the noun, adjective and
adverb will all take the same case ending.

As for Natlangs, I don't know of any that inflect adverbs consistently.
English comes pretty close -- most adverbs are regularly derived
from adjectives by -ly, but as this very sentence shows, a lot of
common ones aren't ('pretty', 'close', 'very').

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