Adverbial Forms in Plautus

Adverbial Verbs and Adverbial Compounds in Tsou: A Syntactic Analysis

Spanish Adverbial Frozen Expressions

This paper presents an electronic dictionary of Spanish adverbial frozen expressions. It focuses on their formal description in view of natural language processing and presents an experiment on the automatic application of this data to real texts using finite-state techniques. The paper makes an assessment of the advantages and limitations of this method for the identification of these multiwor...

Mandarin Adverbial Jiu in Discourse

1.0. Introduction I was motivated to conduct this study by an almost omnipresent, multi-functional, and sometimes semantically illusive marker jiu in verbal interactions. Almost all the linguists who study jiu put jiu and cai together and investigate the contrastive semantic meanings, pragmatic functions and conversational implicatures of these two markers in contrastive perspective. But such a...

Computing adverbial quantifier domains

This paper describes a method for computing the domain of quantification of an adverbially quantified sentence. This method relies on the accommodation of presuppositions in the scope of a quantificational adverb and on the resolution of the domain in context. This paper also describes a computational system for processing such sentences based on this method.

Continuations and adverbial modifiers

We extend de Groote’s approach to natural language or Montague semantics with labels and combine it with Parsons event semantics. We argue that within this framework continuations allow one to deal with adverbs.