With normal intonation, (4a) is ungrammatical and (4b) is unambiguous with the adverbial around midnight construed only with the matrix clause. However, Ross (1986: 180–181) states that ‘[i]f the preposed adverbials bear heavy stress, [...,] [(4a)] becomes grammatical, and [(4b)] becomes ambiguous, for the adverbial can modify the lower verb as well as the main verb’. If Ross’ observation is co...

This paper presents an electronic dictionary of Spanish adverbial frozen expressions. It focuses on their formal description in view of natural language processing and presents an experiment on the automatic application of this data to real texts using finite-state techniques. The paper makes an assessment of the advantages and limitations of this method for the identification of these multiwor...

In this document, I argue that a sentence with a certain type of temporal adverbial is ambiguous, and that one reading is lost when the adverbial appears in sentenceinitial position. Sentence (la), for example, has a reading in which there was some three-year period in the past during which Mary lived in Amsterdam and a reading in which Mary has lived in Amsterdam for the three years preceding ...

This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional ...

Research in methods of lexicalization, classification, analysis-synthesis, transformation, transition, and generation, which has been carried on independently in the German and English sections at LIMAS, has recently been consolidated for the purpose of constructing a Ring-Translation-Model This model has to meet the following requirements: I. It must;produce a translation which is identical in...

It is generally agreed that different categories of adverbial clauses—temporal, conditional, and causal clauses may have their different performances of distribution and functions in different positions as preposed vs. postposed. and Wang (1996), temporal and conditional clauses in both English and Chinese tend to occur in the initial position (preposed) while causal ones tend to occur in the f...

This paper describes a method for computing the domain of quantification of an adverbially quantified sentence. This method relies on the accommodation of presuppositions in the scope of a quantificational adverb and on the resolution of the domain in context. This paper also describes a computational system for processing such sentences based on this method.