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Subjective adverbs
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Subjective clause adverbs express the speaker's subjective emotion or evaluation concerning the denotation of the clause, such as hope or happiness.

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Subjective clause adverbs express the speaker's subjective emotion or evaluation concerning the denotation of the clause, such as hope or happiness. They include the following:

Table 1
aldergeloks fortunately
spitigernôch unfortunately
hooplik hopefully
The modifier genôch enough has the property of turning Verb Phrase (VP) adverbs into subjective clause adverbs. So the adverb gek crazy cannot modify clauses, unless it is accompanied by genôch enough, which may show up in its cliticised form as -ernôch:

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a. Hy praat gek
he talks strangely
He talks weird
b. *Gek wol er net drinke
strange wants he not drink
Strangely enough, he does not want to drink
c. Gekkernôch wol er net drinke
strange.enough wants he not drink
Strangely enough, he does not want to drink

All subjective adverbs can occur either in initial position or in the middle field.

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