Haegeman (2012) argues, following Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria (2004), that when temporal adverbial clauses in English are essentially relative provide several pieces of evidence supporting it. In this paper, I examine the syntax Korean counterpart point out there is significant parallelism between English. Given typological difference languages question, observation provides a novel piece s...

One puzzling aspect of the present perfect is that temporal adverbials are sometimes acceptable in a present perfect sentence and sometimes not, as illustrated by the examples below: (1) a. Martha has lived in Boston for ve years. b. For ve years Martha has lived in Boston. (2) a. Chris has left at midnight. b. #At midnight Chris has left. (3) a. John has been in the bathtub until noon. b. #Unt...

Recent evidence suggests that perceivers have consistent intuitions regarding the boundedness properties of objects and events (Solomon, Proctor, & Rips, in preparation). This paper presents a self-paced reading study examining the speed and accuracy with which readers draw such telicity inferences during on-line language comprehension. Participants read sentences containing either a consumptio...

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...

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This study investigates the acquisition of post-verbal (temporal) adverbials and post-verbal negation in L2 Dutch. It is based on previous findings for L2 French that post-verbal negation poses less of a problem for L2 learners than postverbal adverbial placement (Hawkins et al. 1993; Herschensohn 1998). The current data show that, at first sight, Moroccan and Turkish learners of Dutch also hav...

It has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is noncompositional. However, I will argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspectual properties of an idiom are compositional, combining the aspectual properties of its syntactic constituents in the usual wa...

Many temporal adjuncts select for specific aspectual classes; these adjuncts include measure adverbials like for an hour and interval adverbials like in an hour. While such adjuncts have traditionally served as diagnostics of telicity, it is only relatively recently that aspectual theorists have elucidated the relationship between the scalar-semantic meanings of these adjuncts and the internal ...