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Languages without Adverbs
02-20-2010, 08:40 AM (This post was last modified: 02-20-2010 08:42 AM by CBET_HABEKA.)
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RE: Languages without Adverbs
(02-17-2010 02:07 PM)rawonam Wrote:  There are proper adverbs like מהר=fast.

Well, well, there are always exceptions that confirm the rule.
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03-01-2010, 05:09 PM
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RE: Languages without Adverbs
As far as I know, ancient Chinese doesn’t have these. It has adjectives that are often used adverbially.

But the distinction between parts of speech is very blurred there anyway.
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03-02-2010, 04:10 AM
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RE: Languages without Adverbs
(03-01-2010 05:09 PM)Demetrius Wrote:  As far as I know, ancient Chinese doesn’t have these. It has adjectives that are often used adverbially.

But the distinction between parts of speech is very blurred there anyway.

there are averbs in Jia gu wen language, for example: 其 'qi' is a true adverb with unknown meaning; sometimes they think that it is just a marker of verbal group  

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