Re: adjectives -> adverbs

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Lately I've been curious as to how adverbs are formed out of
> adjectives.
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> 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.
Well, I recall that Latin uses the suffixes "-e" and "-er" (depending on
declination), while modern Romance languages tend to use some form of
"-ment(e)".  But I suppose that is not really any more exotic.  For that,
I think you need to look at more than just what inflection to use.

What about doing something similar to the systems for noun/adjective,
so that you have some kind of correspondence with the verb, with differen=
t
classes of verbs creating adverbs with different endings, or inflecting
the adverb for tense or things like that...

Greetings,
=D8rjan.