Adverbial Subordinator Prefixes

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...

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.

Adverbial Verbs and Adverbial Compounds in Tsou: A Syntactic Analysis

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...