Re: adjectives and adverbs

Julia "Schnecki" Simon <helicula@...> wrote:
> On 6/5/05, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> *Usual* adverbs are like
>> adjectives that refer to verbs instead of nouns. In French,
>> most adverbs end in -(e/am)ment, in English usually in -ly
>> and German does not make a difference between adjectives
>> and adverbs, though adverbs are not inflected for case,
>> gender and number as adjectives are.
>
> Which reminds me: Finnish has "ad-adjectives" (modifying adjectives)
> in addition to "normal" adjectives (modifying nouns) and adverbs
> (modifying verbs). Does anyone know if there are other languages
> (natlangs or conlangs) that do this kind of thing, or something
> similar (i.e. use clearly distinct kinds of adverbs for modifying
> different parts of speech, or different parts of a sentence)?
Something like that came up this morning in #wiktionary.  I think
|borderline| would be that kind of "ad-adjective": it can modify nouns,
as:
      John is a borderline schizophrenic.

And adjectives:
      Many of his patients were hypoglycemic or borderline hypoglycemic.

But not really verbs or adverbs:
      He *borderline became schizophrenic.
      His brain was *borderline schizophrenically divided.


	*Muke!
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