Manner adverbs

[Anvita Abbi]

Does anyone knows about vectors or explicators functioning as adverbs of
manner in any languages other than Indian? Most often the V2 in a compound
verb situation [not in a converb situation] in a verb final language is
grammaticalized for aspectual functions. In addition to this function [and
sometimes exclusively] Indian languages use explicators as modifiers of
verbs, e.g. in Hindi

1.vo kah baiTha
  he say SIT-pst 3msg
  'he said it abruptly'

2. shila ne board ponch Daalaa
   Shila-erg board wipe  PUT-pst 3default sg
   'shila wiped the board intensively'

The examples cited above can be rendered without the V2 but would then loose
the adverbial meaning.

Anvita



Professor Anvita Abbi
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Research Centre for Linguistic Typology
Institute of Advanced Study
La Trobe University
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