ADV: adverb
Definition
Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. In Old Georgian, they may also modify adjectives (as in ფრიად ტკბილი pʻriad tkbili “very sweet”), other adverbs (as in ძალიან კარგად “very well”). There are eight different types of adverbs in Old Georgian: local (AdvType=Loc), temporal (AdvType=Tim), manner (AdvType=Man), causal (AdvType=Cau), interrogative (AdvType=Int) and relational (AdvType=Rel). Generally, adverbs can be considered a closed class of items which can be expanded with two slots, namely a slot for postpositions and for indirect speech markers, but in Old Georgian, adverbs often have particles added to them, indicating their type, see PartType.
Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags
Adv: Adverb
- Loc (local adverb): AdvType=Loc
- Temp (temporal adverb): AdvType=Tim
- Mod (manner adverb): AdvType=Man
- Caus (causal adverb): AdvType=Cau
- Q (interrogative adverb): AdvType=Int
- Rel (relational adverb): AdvType=Rel
Examples
- local adverbs: აქა akʻa ‘here’, იქი ikʻi ‘there’ etc.
- temporal adverbs: ოდეს odes ‘when’, ხვალე xvale ‘tomorrow’ etc.
- manner adverbs: ესრჱთ/ესრე esrētʻ/esre ‘like this’, ეგრჱთ/ეგრე egrētʻ/egre ‘like that’ etc.
- causal adverbs: ამისათჳს amisatʻws ‘for this’, მაგისათჳს magisatʻws ‘for that’ etc.
- interrogative adverbs: სადა sada ‘where’, ოდეს odes ‘when’ etc.
- relational adverbs: ვითარ vitʻar ‘in the manner like’, რაჟამს ražams ‘at the time when’ etc.
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