Adverbs in Strange Places

Oncogenic osteomalacia: strange tumours in strange places.

Two patients presented with hypophosphataemic osteomalacia and were subsequently found to have small tumours unusual histopathology and location causing the osteomalacia. Each tumour was found after an intensive search for occult masses. Studies of vitamin D metabolism and renal tubular function before and after surgery yielded further insight into the pathophysiology of oncogenic osteomalacia....

Signaling from strange places

he tumor suppressor p53 can act as a transcription factor, T but only a few p53-activated genes have been found, and the biochemical basis of p53-mediated apoptosis has been especially difficult to probe. Now, Bourdon et al. describe the discovery and characterization of a novel p53-inducible proapoptotic gene (page 235). By comparing gene expression in normal and p53-knockout mice exposed to i...

The Syntactic Flexibility of Adverbs: French Degree Adverbs

While French degree words have been assigned several syntactic categories, we show that they are rather highy ‘polymorphic’ adverbs (they occur in all syntactic domains), which select the expression they modify on a purely semantic basis. Like French adverbs in general, they occur both to the left and to the right of the head they modify. Following previous work (a.o. van Noord and Bouma 1994, ...

Comparing adverbs of quantity

Starting out with some intriguing parallels and differences between French beaucoup ‘a lot’ and souvent ‘often’, this paper develops an account of the distributional and semantic properties of four classes of adverbial expressions of quantity: frequency adverbs (souvent), relative degree adverbs (beaucoup), absolute degree adverbs ( un peu ‘a bit’) and x-times adverbs (trois fois ‘three times’)...

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