ADV: adverb
Definition
Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner.
Interrogative adverbs are tagged as ADV.
Examples
- sangavek “why”
- qavngaq “when”
- naten “how”
The quantifier-qualifier construction serves as adverbial function (Jacobson 2001, p. 76-78) and is tagged as ADV.
Examples
- allakagh “separately from others”
- ellnginagh- “alone (base)” (as in ellnginaan “only, inflected for 3rd person singular”)
Demonstrative adverbs are also tagged as ADV.
Examples
- qagani “outside”
- maani “here, in this area”
- whani “here, in this immediate place”
References
- Steven A. Jacobson. 2001. A Practical Grammar of the St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik Eskimo Language, Preliminary Edition, 2nd edition. Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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