Verb-oriented adverbials may express manner, degree (such as English ‘enough’, ‘rather’), frequency (English ‘often’) or aspectual information (English ‘frequently’, ‘usually’, etc.). Moreover, some adverbs belonging to this category may express negation, like for instance the English negative adverb ‘never’. In what follows some examples of adverbs expressing manner and aspectual information are shown [SYNTAX 2.2.2, 2.2.3; LEXICON 3.3.2].
Manner:
a) university gemma work hard.
‘Gemma works hard at the university.’
b) sofa pedro sleep comfortable.
‘Pedro was sleeping comfortably in the sofa.’
[th--]
c) xavi sleep deep-a.
‘Xavi sleeps profoundly.’
Aspectual information:
ix3 come always late.
‘She always arrives late.’
Moreover, verb-oriented adverbials may be expressed only through non-manual markers. In the example below the adverb deep-a is omitted and the non-manuals accompanying it (the mouth gesture [th--]) spread over the verb sleep (see [SYNTAX 2.2.3] for more details).
[th--]
xavi sleep.
‘Xavi sleeps profoundly.’