Re: Looking for a case: counting

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >Now, all of this is a question of terminoloy, but the distinction
> >between "adverb" (form) and _adverbial_ (function) seems useful to me.
>
> OK, but the discussion was about the function only, so there was no
> confusion possible. And the distinction is useful only *in languages that
> make it*. The question that generated this thread was general, not the
> notion of adverb. So answering a general question with a non-general answer
> is wrong, when you try to pass it as general. That was the core of my own
> reply.
I must confess I never read Philippe's original post in it's entirety, since
it seemed to go on about his usual concerns about primitives and semantic
absolutes, which do not interest me. I did not mean to contradict anything you
said, only to bring up the terminological issue.

A language where all adverbials come in the same formal guise must be an
interesting beast. In English they range over adverbs and adpositional phrases
to entire clauses.

                                                      Andreas