Re: adjectives -> adverbs

On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Tim Smith wrote:

> At 02:53 PM 3/20/99 +0100, Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> >Lately I've been curious as to how adverbs are
> >formed out of adjectives.
> In two of my conlangs, Meitzanathein and Hwendaaru, this is done by
> nominalizing the adjective and then putting it in the instrumental case, so
> that, for instance, the equivalent of "happily" is something that could be
> translated literally as "with happiness".  I don't know of any natlangs that
> do this, but I'd be surprised if there aren't any.
Valdyan uses the locative or instrumental case (the same ending,
usually -ie); adjectives don't need to be nominalized as there's no
real difference between nouns and adjectives: _boch_ can mean "rich"
or "riches", _bochie_ is "richly".

There are a few adverbs made from nouns/adjectives or verbs that have
the old (obsolete) dative case ending, -e; usually they're grown into
conjunctions, such as _hune_ "because" contrasting with _hunie_ "for
good reason" from _hun_ "reason"; _cyne_ "at once, presently"
contrasting with _cynie_ "from that moment, from now on" from _cyna_
"to follow".

   Irina

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