Czecb adverb/adverb pairs

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Mon Nov 17 23:24:46 UTC 2008


gladney at ILLINOIS.EDU wrote:

> Yes, Polish has some such distinction, but it's between predicative
> use and adverbial.  Compare _Mi/lo mi Pani,a pozna'c_ 'It's nice to
> meet you' and _Pani jest mile widziana_ 'You are welcome here'.
> Other examples in my _Handbook of Polish_ (available from Slavica
> Publishers), p. 115.

Well, thanks to all for responding. From what I can tell, it's a West 
Slavic thing (Polish, Czech, Slovak), though we haven't heard from the 
"minor" languages.

-- 
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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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