An adverbial adjunct, or simply adverbial, is a phrase that adds more information to a clause. They are created by placing the hiatus tone on a verb. For example, (tî sóaq) "in the garden" and (fôı) "boredly" are adverbials.
Types of adverbial
Syntactically, adverbials may or may not take a noun form complement, depending on if the verb is transitive or intransitive.
- Tî is transitive, so it needs a complement — here sóaq — effectively making tî act like a preposition.
- Fôı is intransitive, so it doesn't need a complement, making it act like an adverb.
Semantically, adverbials are split into two categories based on whether the verb being conjugated can have an event as its subject.
- Tî can have an event subject, so it creates an eventive adverbial: Sea jí tî sóaq means "I rest, and this event is in the garden."
- Fôı can't have an event subject, so it creates a subject-sharing adverbial: Sea jí fôı means "I rest, and concurrently I am bored."
Positions
Adverbials may occur in three positions:
- Before the cleft verb nä, for example Tî sóaq nä pıe jí sá kafe.
- Before the arguments, for example Pıe tî sóaq jí sá kafe.
- After the arguments, for example Pıe jí sá kafe tî sóaq.