On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]> wrote: > You'r right, we're really talking about two parts of speech > (nouns and verbs), the third part of speech would be modifying > other adverbs and this is really a case of modifying a verb > (which is in this case an adverb-verb combination).
Do you mean something like +//. where you use two adverbs to modify a verb? First one adverb modifies the verb and you get a derived verb. Then the second adverb modifies the derived verb? > I am starting to think of adverbs as a kind of preprocessor for a verb by > changing the way arguments are parsed/adjusted prior to use. This may be a > flawed view :) This is a viable view, for both adverbs and conjunctions. That said, they have the full power of J available to them (which makes them a bit different from the sort of preprocessor you might encounter in other languages). >> Of course, the verb itself can be used in a monadic verb >> context or a dyadic verb context. But that context is largely >> independent of the adverb. > > Hmmm. I think by this you mean the monadic or dyadic versions of the > verb-adverb complex (which is a verb itself). In that case, whether the > verb-adverb is monadic or dyadic is certainly independent of the adverb and > only depends on the number of arguments. If you are referring only to the > verb being modified by the adverb, in the case of ~ and / the verb is always > acting with two arguments. There may be cases where the modified verb does > change from monadic to dyadic depending on the number of arguments of the > verb-adverb complex, but as I am still muddling through the language I > haven't seen that behaviour yet. They can only be different in different containing sentences. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
