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ADV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs (副詞 / fu3ci4) typically modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs for such categories as time, manner, degree, frequency, or negation.

Some adverbs also modify clauses with conjunctive and discursive functions.

A small number of adverbs may also modify numerals and determiners, or nouns and pronouns.

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, demonstrative, etc. These should be treated as adverbs when modifying a predicate, but otherwise some of them can function as a nominal in the syntax, in which case they should be tagged PRON.

Note that although some adverbs express temporal information, many common time expressions (e.g., 今日 / gam1jat6 ‘today’, 舊年 / gau6nin4*2 “last year”, 夜晚 / je6maan5 “night”) are actually nouns and should be tagged NOUN.

Examples


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