I don't see how "mi nala" qualifies as an adverb in your example.
What makes it an adverb, rather than an argument of the verb?
Jim
> The language I'm working on now is very isolating. So:
> te mi nala: ta:tuta:tu i tu kuko:
> she PL child give-give ACC the speak
> Here "mi nala:" children is used adverbally to describe ta:tuta:tu.
> te mi nala: ta:tuta:tu.
> she PL child give-give
> She teaches child-ly.
> She teaches children.
> This is *not* the same, of course, as
> te mo nala: li ta:tuta:tu.
> She in child way teach
> She teaches childishly.
> You could *also*, I suspect, get away with:
> te ta:tuta:tu i mi nala:
> She teaches ACC pl child
> The same thing that keeps it from being too ambiguous in English keeps it
> from being too ambiguous in whatever I'm going to name it.