ADV: adverb
Definition
Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. They may also modify adjectives and other adverbs, as in խիստ տաք/xist tak’ “very hot” or խիստ կամկար/xist kamkar “very gently”, կարի շատ/kari šat “too much”.
There is a closed subclass of pronominal adverbs that refer to circumstances in context, rather than naming them directly; similarly to pronouns, these can be
categorized as interrogative, relative, demonstrative. Pronominal adverbs also get the ADV part-of-speech tag but they are differentiated by additional features.
Note that in Armenian some adverbs inflect for Degree. Second degree specified by adverb այլ/ayl “more”, e.g. այլ արագ/ayl arag “more quickly”.
Complex adverbs form multiword expression, e.g. օր քան զօր/òr k’an zòr (day by day), ի ներս/i ners (inside), ի դուրս/i dowrs (out), տկուկ-տկուկ/tkowk-tkowk (layer-by-layer).
The status of component words is accounted for in the syntactic annotation: the subsequent word is linked to the first one by the fixed relation.
There is a subclass of demonstrative, relative and interrogative adverbs, which inflect for PronType. Demonstrative adverbs also inflect for Deixis.
Examples
- այլուվայր/aylowvayr “again”
- էգվնէ/ēgvnē “tomorrow morning”
- դրուցեւ/drowc’ew “outwardly”
- ի լման/i lman “entirely”
- խոհեմտաբար/xohemtabar “wisely”
- interrogative adverbs: ուր/owr, ուստի/owsti, որչափ/orčap’, ոնց/onc’ “where, where from, when, how many/much, how”
- relative: յայնժամ/yaynžam, յորժամ/yoržam “at the time, when”
- demonstrative adverbs: աստ/ast, աստուստ/astowst, այտի/ayti “here, from here, from there”, հանչաք/hančak’ “that much; this much”, էնպես/ēnpes “so, as, that way”
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