Adverbial Usage of Emotional Adjectives

Examples of emotional adjectives used as an adverbial component were reviewed in this paper. (1) Sakura ga chitte ikunowo kanashiku miteita. (2) Hanako wa kanashiku waratta. It was also explained that adverbial usage of emotional adjectives can be classified into an “adverbial component of recognition by the agent” expressing “what is felt by the agent while the action is being realized” in the case of (1) and “adverbial component of recognition not by the agent” expressing “the state where the speaker looks at it outside of an object or a third party” in the case of (2). In regards to the former, there is only simultaneity without causality between the adverbial component of recognition by the agent and the event described by the predicative verb