Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantification

Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantiication

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 Corpus-based Analysis of Epistemic Stance Adverbs in Essays Written by Native English Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners

Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description, this study explored the use of epistemic stance adverbs in academic essays written by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners. Follow...

Integrating Linguistic Dimensions: The Scope of Adverbs

Three distinctions seem relevant for the scope properties of adverbs: their function (adjuncts or complements), their prosody (incidental or integrated) and their lexical semantics (parenthetical or non parenthetical). We propose an analysis in which the scope of French adverbs is aligned with their syntactic properties, relying on a view of adjuncts as loci for quantification, a linearization ...

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’)...