Re: adjectives -> adverbs
| From: | Tim Smith <timsmith@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 21, 1999, 22:10 |
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At 02:53 PM 3/20/99 +0100, Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Hello y'all!
>
>Lately I've been curious as to how adverbs are
>formed out of adjectives.
>
>I know that in Swedish you use the neuter form
>of adjectives, in English you use -ly, and in
>German you don't do anything at all.
>But there has to be more and cooler ways.
>
>I've been thinking about using an infix in my
>conlang Rinya. ('Paeno' = good ; 'paenio' = well)
>Or perhaps changing the last -o into -e.
>
>But then I run out of ideas. Do you guys know
>of any cool way of doing this? There has to
>be some unusual way in like African or Australian
>languages for example.
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.
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