Futurity can be signalled in English in a great variety of ways. [Aarts reviews previous statements concerning the progressive and non-progressive present with future reference.] There is considerable agreement among authors who have dealt with this topic, but to define the conditions that cause a speaker to choose the one form rather than the other would call for a detailed study. The importan...

Tenses in English temporal adjunct clauses seem to show properties of both matrix and embedded tenses. On the one hand, they are often argued be interpreted with respect time utterance (Stump 1985; Arregui & Kusumoto 1998; Kubota et al. 2011). other more constrained than tenses, claimed limited past tense when is past, present future. I evidence from perfect that always relative nearest...

Pregroup grammars are a context-free grammar formalism which may be used to describe the syntax of natural languages. However, this formalism is not able to naturally define types corresponding to optional and iterated arguments such as optional complements of verbs or verbs’ adverbial modifiers. This paper introduces two constructions that make up for this deficiency.

When following a negated matrix clause, adverbial clauses (ACs) like “because it was paid very well” in (1) can be interpreted as residing within the scope of the negation (1b), or outside of it (1). (1) a. Peter did not quit his job because it was paid very well b. Peter did not quit his job because it was paid very

We describe a robust approach for linking already existing lexical/semantic hierarchies. We use a constraint satisfaction algorithm (relaxation labelling) to select –among a set of candidates– the node in a target taxonomy that bests matches each node in a source taxonomy. In this paper we present the complete mapping of the nominal, verbal, adjectival and adverbial parts of WordNet 1.5 onto Wo...

Constructions where the clause introduced by wenn 'if' can have a double function in that it is an adverbial that provides the protasis of an implication as well as the propositional argument of a matrix predicate (argument conditionals). Unlike, for instance, Pesetsky's (1991) and Hinterwimmer's (2003) approaches which regard the conjunctions if or when as an "instruction" for the adverbial cl...

Having developed a Montague-like interpretation of a fragment of natural language, one may want to modify it in order to accomodate further linguistic phenomena. This may require radical changes in the semantic interpretation of syntactic categories. For instance, one may want to raise the semantic type assigned to the category of adverbial modifiers in order to account for quantified adverbial...