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Re: [lojban] adverbs



  I'll probably be shouted down here, but I think "fasnyvla seltau" would be "adverb" The problem is, of course, that what exactly and "adverb" *is* covers a gigantically wide range of things.  Here is MW11's defintion: "a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial, and in English also serving to connect and to express comment on clause content — compare adjunct, conjunct, disjunct"

  So, basically, the one thing that it CAN'T modify is a noun.  
            --gejyspa


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
How would you say "adverb" in Lojban? Would a Lojban grammarian describing
English consider "then" to belong to the same part of speech as adverbs formed
from adjectives? What about "then" and "there"?

Pierre

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