In an adverbial manner; functioning as or with the characteristics of an adverb.
From 'adverbial' (adjective) + '-ly' (adverbial suffix). This creates a meta-linguistic word—an adverb describing how something functions as an adverb.
Words like 'adverbially,' 'verbally,' and 'nominally' are delightfully meta—they're adverbs about language itself. Linguists use these words constantly, and they show how English allows us to talk about language structure in a systematic, hierarchical way.
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