Right. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for.Creyeditor wrote:I think Micamo is right in that every language has the functional category Adverbials, but not every language has a morphological/morphosyntactical categoy Adverb. They may look the same as Adjectives/Verbs/Nouns and act in the same way.
That's all right. Your German and Indonesian sentences are still noteworthy, though I wonder how Indonesian would handle the more complex sentences with 'unfortunately' that I gave as illustrations above.I'm sorry that I haven't got any real clear natlang examples.
How does "Gerüchteweise" break down into its component parts?1It looks like an embedded clause, but it mostly acts as an adverb. German can actually use an adjective in that sentence:
Gerüchteweise sind Jungen böse.
as_rumor_has_it COP.PL.PRS boy bad
People say, boys are bad.
I should clarify that examples from highly synthetic languages, which have polypersonal agreement but lack, say, noun incorporation, are still of interest to me.I'm pretty sure that some languages (not necessarily polysynthetic) would handle some of those sentences in the following manner:
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3.SG>1.SG-like-CONJ 3.SG>2.SG-like
'She doesn't like me or/and you very much.'
Regarding your hypothetical example, though, wouldn't one actually expect something like the following?
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3.SG>1.SG-NEG-like-CONJ 3.SG>2.SG-NEG-like
'She doesn't like me or/and you very much.'