Bulgarian "deeprichastie"

[Oscar E Swan]

Sorry, Wayles and David, but in my opinion 'verbal adverb' sounds
much less felicitous than adverbial, or non-declining participle.
'Verbal adverb' gives prominence to the idea of 'adverb', and it is not
really an ad-verbal item, but an ad-clausal one. Besides, if you use
'verbal adverb', then this more less commits you to using 'verbal
adjective' for 'participle', which is really clumsy.
Best of all is
'gerund', which makes a reasonable pair with 'participle'. Because of
its opacity, this term can meaning whatever you want
it to. Also, it's short and, in the context of Slavic, unambiguous. I recall
that Yokoyama
uses the term 'gerund' quite unabashedly to refer to deeprichastie in an
article on historical Russian syntax, after which I decided
never again to be afraid of the word.

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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, E. Wayles Browne wrote:

> >
> >But all this is only just one standpoint. It does not take into
> >consideration English linguistic tradition. I would be very
> >curious to hear native speakers if a term like adverbial participle
> >would be acceptable in English linguistic tradition to describe
> >this phenomenon in Slavic languages.
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Danko Sipka, Visiting Professor
>
> Adverbial participle is OK, but I think verbal adverb is even better
> (and, by chance, corresponds even better to _glagolski prilog_).
>
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
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