The goal of the present study was to investigate event-related potential (ERP) responses to Dutch negative and positive polarity adverbs of degree presented in licensed and unlicensed contexts with negative and affirmative particles directly preceding the polarity item. To control for effects of the processing of negation as such, neutral adverbs were also presented in negative and affirmative ...

The LEXADV-project is a Scandinavian research project (2004-2006, financed by Nordplus Sprog) with the aim of extending three Scandinavian semantic lexicons building on the SIMPLE lexicon model (Lenci et al., 2000) with the word class of adverbs. In the lexicons of approx. 400 Danish, Norwegian and Swedish adverbs the different senses are described with a semantic type and a set of semantic fea...

Linguistics and stylistics have been investigated for author identification for quite a while, but recently, we have testified a impressive growth in the volume with which lawyers and courts have called upon the expertise of linguists in cases of disputed authorship. This motivates computer science researchers to look to the problem of author identification from a different perspective. In this...

The paper summarizes the mechanisms used in Ulch language to denote comparison as a broad cognitive category. Referring numerous studies of various languages, author examines variety possible comparative relations between objects and events divides them into four types: superlative (inequality group), equative simulative (equality group). Each type features set linguistic means verbalize specif...

This article deals with some adverbs and adverbial constructions expressing epistemic modality in Italian. These forms are commonly considered as fully lexical. It will be shown, though, that they can be compared to grammatical forms, at least to an extent. In fact, on the one hand they are organized in a closed lexical paradigm characterized by semantic complementarity and seemingly eas y to b...

Abstract Although Latin is rich in vocabulary items for time, the history of their formation not always clear. The adjectives and adverbs related to ‘day’ ‘night’— diurnus ‘of day’ / dius ‘by nocturnus night’ nox night’—are such cases have yet received fully satisfactory morphological explanations, particularly as - r word-final sibilant adverbs, from either a or an Indo-European perspective. B...