Difference between revisions of "Adverbs"
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When adverbs modify adjectives, they cannot intervene between the stative verb and bare adjective with those adjectives that have a verb-adjective form, like balig 'black': |
When adverbs modify adjectives, they cannot intervene between the stative verb and bare adjective with those adjectives that have a verb-adjective form, like balig 'black': |
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| − | + | oɓoxole fop aɓalga ɓalig |
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| − | + | oɓoxole aɓalga ɓalig fop |
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+ | *oɓoxole aɓalga fop ɓalig |
'The dog is completely black.' |
'The dog is completely black.' |
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Adverbs have flexible noun-class membership, and sometimes can behave as tense-bearing verbs and as adjectives. For instance, fop can be the adverb 'completely', or the quantifier 'all' in a partitive construction: |
Adverbs have flexible noun-class membership, and sometimes can behave as tense-bearing verbs and as adjectives. For instance, fop can be the adverb 'completely', or the quantifier 'all' in a partitive construction: |
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| − | fop no |
+ | fop no ɓoxole aɓalga ɓalig |
‘All of the dogs are black.’ |
‘All of the dogs are black.’ |
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‘I go quickly.’ ‘I hurry up and go.’ |
‘I go quickly.’ ‘I hurry up and go.’ |
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| − | + | weʄi ñofu ñofi weʄ |
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‘Swim quickly!’ ‘Hurry up and swim!' |
‘Swim quickly!’ ‘Hurry up and swim!' |
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Revision as of 17:54, 7 December 2012
The positioning of adverbs in the sentence is as flexible in Sereer as in English.
gimam apaax gimam tok apaax gimam tok gimam ‘I sing loudly.’
nangam weʄa legleg legleg nangam weʄa nangam legleg weʄa ‘I swim often.’
When adverbs modify adjectives, they cannot intervene between the stative verb and bare adjective with those adjectives that have a verb-adjective form, like balig 'black':
oɓoxole fop aɓalga ɓalig oɓoxole aɓalga ɓalig fop *oɓoxole aɓalga fop ɓalig 'The dog is completely black.'
Adverbs have flexible noun-class membership, and sometimes can behave as tense-bearing verbs and as adjectives. For instance, fop can be the adverb 'completely', or the quantifier 'all' in a partitive construction:
fop no ɓoxole aɓalga ɓalig ‘All of the dogs are black.’
The ability of adverbs to be used as verbs can be illustrated with these minimal pairs:
retam ñofu ñofam o ret ‘I go quickly.’ ‘I hurry up and go.’
weʄi ñofu ñofi weʄ ‘Swim quickly!’ ‘Hurry up and swim!'
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Oana 00:47, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
