SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language

29 Adverbial Expressions

There are several different kinds of words that are called adverbs in English. The most common kind of adverbs are words ending in the suffix ‘‑ly’ in English, such as ‘slowly’ or ‘happily,’ though many words used as adverbs in English do not end in ‘‑ly,’ such as ‘fast.’ These types of words modify verbs and tell how the event happened: ‘he walked slowly’ or ‘he walked happily’ or ‘he walked fast.’ We will call these kinds of modification adverbial expressions.

Another class of words often called adverbs are words like ‘very,’ ‘really,’ or ‘exactly.’ These words intensify some quality as in ‘She is very nice,’ ‘That tree is really old,’ or ‘He was exactly right.’ SENĆOŦEN words corresponding to these ideas, intensifier auxiliaries, were covered in §10.

SENĆOŦEN has no category of words corresponding to English adverbs, but SENĆOŦEN certainly does have ways of expressing adverbial ideas. This section describes how adverbial expressions are made in SENĆOŦEN. There are two methods. The first method is covered in §29.1, and the second method is covered in §29.2.
 

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