Re: adjectives -> adverbs

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.
>
> Hope you can give me some ideas,
Turning adjectives into adverbs is fairly straightforward:in Teonaht you
just put a preposition in front of it
that means "of," "out of":  so if _tystra_ means "sudden,"
then _o tystra_ means "suddenly."  But weirder in  T.
is the way it changes adverbs into verbs.  Instead of
saying "I swam swiftly,"  elry o nimint nweth,  you can
also say "in swimming  I swifted,"  _rin nwethrem delry nimin_,
meaning "I swam swiftly," only here the verb is the stative
-ndi form "to be swift" and the verb swimming is allocated as
a gerund.


Sally Caves
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/verbs.html