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Adverbs can also be grouped according to their structure into (a) simple, (b) derived and (c) compound.

3.5. Simple Adverbs ;

ldum	‘daily’
tįlėn	‘upward’
sśpak	‘now’

3.6. Derived Adverbs

A derived adverb consists of a root plus suffix(es). The most frequently used suffixes are /-pė/ /-l/ and /-na/. On syntactic axis, any of the modal case suffixes may be added to form derived adverbs.

Formula may be as follows -

Adv	=	Advnc	+	mod
		{N/NS}		pp
		{Adv }
		{adj }
		{verb }

(Nuclear slot is filled by a form class other than a post-position and modifying slot is filled by a post-position).

ara+l	aral	‘inside’
sśpak+pė	sśpakpė	‘just now’
d+l	dl	‘than’
edė+dė+lpė	edė dlpė	‘until’
mėnam+dkke		‘afterwards’
edė+l	dėl	‘in time’

3.7. Compound Adverbs

A compound adverb has a multiple-root composition. Two base forms join together to form compound adverbs.

sil	mėl	‘now a days’
today	tomorrow
tįlėNkėig		‘up and down’
lėklėk		‘sometimes’

4 Adverb

4.0.1 Mising verb system consists of verb forms built upon verb stems. Any stem, which can take the regular formative elements like tense, aspect and mood, is a verb stem. The Mising verb stems are either transitive or intransitive. Transitive stems occur with object(s) and intransitives without.

4.0.2. Verb stem construction

A stem level construction is a verb root with one or more optional morphemes.

Vstem = VR ± VR / ± AF

where

VR verb root

AF affix

It gives the following types of verbs :

(a) One root stem with affixation

(b) Complex stem with more than one derivational suffix

(c) Compound stem with two roots with/without derivational affixes.

4.1 Verb root :

When all the affixes are dropped, what remains is a root. Root may be either transitive or intrasitive -