AdvType: adverb type
Semantic subclasses of adverbs. They are annotated in some tagsets (e.g. Bulgarian, Czech, Hindi, Japanese) and would probably apply to many other languages if their tagsets cared to cover them. Note that the “prontype” feature also applies to some adverbs and is orthogonal to “AdvType”.
Man: adverb of manner
Examples
- [en] how, so
Loc: adverb of location
Examples
- [en] where, here, there
- [cs] kde “where”, odkud “from where”, kudy “through where”, kam “where to”
Tim: adverb of time
Examples
- [en] when, now, then
- [cs] kdy “when”, odkdy “since when”, dokdy “till when”
Deg: adverb of quantity or degree
Note that there is a fuzzy borderline between adverbs of degree and indefinite numerals (as they are called in some grammars).
Examples
- [cs] více, méně “more, less”
Cau: adverb of cause
Examples
- [en] why
Mod: adverb of modal nature
The Czech examples below are similar to modal verbs: they take infinitives as arguments and add the meaning of possibility, necessity or recommendedness. I suspect that the Bulgarian example (transliteration of French “à propos”) is used differently but its native tagset also calles it “modal”.
Examples
- [bg] апропо
- [cs] možno “possible”, nutno “necessary”, radno “adviseable”, třeba “necessary”
Con: concessive adverb
A concessive adverb states an opposition to a previous clause or sentence.
Examples
- [yrl] nuká “nevertheless”
AdvType in other languages: [arr] [gn] [ka] [la] [mdf] [myv] [pay] [quc] [tpn] [u] [yrl]