Adverbial intensifiers in contemporary Polish and Slovak

Intensifiers in German and Dutch Anaphor Resolution

information extend to other languages, and to further our understanding of the source/nature of these effects. The structure of this paper is as follows. In Section 1, we review existing work on the effects of structural and non-structural factors on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in PNPs, including our previous research on English (Kaiser, Runner, Sussman & Tanenhaus 2007, 2008)...

Larvae of Trombiculid Mites (acarina: Trombiculidae) in Wild Birds in Slovak and Polish Carpathians

Literák I . , M. Honza, B. Pinowska, A. Haman: Larvae of Trombiculid Mites (Acarina: Trombiculidae) in Wild Birds in the Slovak and Polish Carpathians. Acta Vet. Brno 2001, 70: 479-483. The larvae of trombiculid mites were surveyed in wild birds at four localities in Slovakia and one locality in Poland (all localities are situated in the Carpathian Mountains) from 1999 to 2000. The total of 135...

Adverbial Verbs and Adverbial Compounds in Tsou: A Syntactic Analysis

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.

Vagueness and Adverbial Polarity Items

However, mattaku and zenzen are not uniform in terms of scalarity and polarity. In sentence (1), zenzen is natural in a situation where the speaker actually has a little money, whereas mattaku is unacceptable in such a situation. Descriptively, we can summarize this distinction as follows: ‘Zenzen not P’ implies ‘a little P’ but ‘mattaku not P’ entails ‘completely not P.’ (P= gradable predicate...