Re: Looking for a case: counting

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

> "Adverbs" are just
> noun phrases in some local, temporal, instrumental (or other such cases)
> case.
I must say I find it more intuitive to think of oblique noun cases (incl
oblique uses of core cases) as adverbs. Partly because seeing "well" as "with
goodness" or something of the sort feels terribly pointless.

According to how they taught us grammar back in school, your example "with a
hammer" is not an adverb, the term being restricted to morphology. The thing
would have been said to be formally a prepositional phrase and functionally an
_adverbial_ (dunno English term).

Now, all of this is a question of terminoloy, but the distinction
between "adverb" (form) and _adverbial_ (function) seems useful to me.

                                                    Andreas

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