Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs

Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantification

Non-factual Before and Adverbs of Quantification

This article discusses the semantics of before, with special reference to socalled non-factual before and its interaction with adverbs of quantification. I will adopt a version of Anscombe’s (1964) analysis of before and supplement it with a modal-temporal presupposition lexically induced by before. This account will be extended to quantificational cases as well within Rooth’s (1985) theory of ...

A study on multiple interpretations of frequency adverbs in Japanese

This paper is concerned with frequency adverbs in Japanese. Many linguists have pointed out that frequency statements and generic sentences have multiple readings when they co-occur with a kind of adjuncts. More often than not, the interpretation is complicated by the ambiguity of temporal adverbs and the context-dependent nature of the way operator works. In fact, frequency adverbs in Japanese...

Interaction Graphs: Multiplicatives

We introduce a graph-theoretical representation of proofs of multiplicative linear logic which yields both a denotational semantics and a notion of truth. For this, we use a locative approach (in the sense of ludics [Gir01]) related to game semantics [HO00, AJM94] and the Danos-Regnier interpretation of GoI operators as paths in proof nets [ADLR94, DR95]. We show how we can retrieve from this l...

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