From a historical perspective, there is no doubt that "yendo" in the example
cited and similar sentences originated as an adverbial.  To a certain
extent, there is a mismatch between the expected meaning of adverbials and
"yendo" in this example in present-day Spanish, and it seems a bit funny to
say that it is a "manner of being".  But is this sort of mismatch sufficient
to demonstrate that there has been a syntactic reanalysis?  Or can the
construction retain its original syntax with a special interpretation?
(People working in the English grammatical tradition have typically answered
that question in one way, but it seems to me that maybe the opposite answer
is better.)

>From: Johanna Rubba <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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>Subject: Re: go fishing
>Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:34:45 -0700
>
>Maybe we shouldn't get too far off of discussing English, but what's the
>definition of 'adverbial' that permits the adverbial analysis of 'yendo'
>in 'estamos yendo'? Does it describe the subjects' 'manner of being'?
>
>Thanks.
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