---Raul Miller wrote: > Sherlock, Ric wrote: > > "Conjunctions and adverbs apply to noun or verb arguments; > a conjunction > > may produce as many as four distinct classes of results." > > > > These tells me that an adverb can apply to a noun as well > as a verb, but don't tell me what the result is. > > > > Can anyone confirm or correct my interpretation?
Thank you for the examples Raul. They are interesting in themselves but I don't think they answer my basic question which got a bit lost in my post. I'll add comments below to try and explain better. > Yes. An adverb can produce a result that is a noun, a verb, an adverb > or a conjunction. > > Here are some examples: > anoun=: 0 : > averb=: 3 : > anadverb=: 1 : > aconjunction=: 2 : These are all adverbs formed from a noun and an conjuntion. > And here are some example uses: > 'abc' anoun > # 'abc' anoun > '1+y' averb > '1+y' averb 1 2 > 'u/y' anadverb > + 'u/y' anadverb 1 2 > 'u :v' aconjunction > # 0 'u :v' aconjunction 'def' > # 0 'u :v' aconjunction 0 > ghi > ) I think these are all examples of an adverb acting on a noun to its left to form a new verb? The result of that new verb depends on the adverb and the noun and, as you state, can be a noun, verb, adverb or conjuntion. > > Can you point me to a dictionary reference? > > For what, exactly? For an explicit statement that says that when an adverb applies to a noun on its left it forms a new verb. i.e. an equivalent statement to "A two-element train of a conjunction with a noun or a verb produces an adverb." Which I imagine would read something like "A two-element train of a noun (or verb) and an adverb produces a new verb". The bit about an verb and adverb producing a new verb is in the dictionary, but I can't find an explicit reference to a noun and an adverb. > Is something missing? I have found an example (and you have given many more) that implies that an adverb applied to a noun forms a verb, but haven't found an explicit statement to that effect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
