The syntactic category of adverbs is generally associated with the copresence of two properties. First, adverbs, which are typically used with the function of an adjunct, have a remarkable distributional freedom. Second, at least some adverbs are scopal elements, whose scope properties may have consequences on their position. Accordingly, adverbs pose a number of acute questions for the syntax-...

In this paper, we try the classification of adverbs. The method for classifying adverbs is not known well, compared with nouns or verbs. The difficulty comes from vagueness of the relation between adverbs and other words. Using a corpus and an existing thesaurus, we investigate the elements which play an important role in the classification of adverbs. We got experimental results which showed t...

The main goal of this paper is to argue for an analysis of final rises in American English as ‘intonational adverbs’ expressing epistemic uncertainty. Furthermore, it is suggested that the question-like behavior of declaratives with final rises can be derived as a secondary effect from maxims of rational conversation and is not directly due to their intonational properties. The advantage of thi...

On the one hand, it is well-known that adverbs raise interface problems, on the other, the architecture of HPSG is well suited for expressing the correlations between aspects of the different linguistic dimensions, treating them in a parallel fashion, and representing all of themwith feature structures. We will study the interaction of scoping with syntactic properties (grammatical function and...

Recent literature on the placement and interpretation of adverbs has tried to explain crosslinguistic fixed hierarchies on the order of adverbs on the basis of strict syntactic hierarchies (e.g. Cinque 1999). The aim of this talk is to show that, in order to understand the distribution of adverbs, one must take into account information coming from different domains: their (non)inherent semantic...

Adverbs are one of the most intriguing categories language in terms composition, morphological characteristics, syntactic function, origin, usage and others. When we look at spelling meanings closely, number contradictions found. The paper examines compound adverbs Bulgarian grammar which formed with particularly prepositional prefix such as "НА; ОТ; ДО". examination was carried out according t...

For years linguists have noted that intonation patterns and sentence-final discourse particles encode similar meanings across languages (e.g., [23], [21]). Yet the division of labor between the two kinds of systems—and in particular whether there exists a compensatory distribution between them— remains to be clarified. In this article, we focus on two languages within the Romance group (Catalan...

Recent literature on the placement and interpretation of adverbs has tried to explain crosslinguistic fixed hierarchies on the order of adverbs on the basis of strict syntactic hierarchies (e.g. Cinque 1999). The aim of this talk is to show that, in order to understand the distribution of adverbs, one must take into account information coming from different domains: their (non)inherent semantic...

In this paper, we propose clear-cut definitions of distinct temporal adverbs and provide descriptive features for each class of temporal adverbs. By measuring time points in temporal axis, we revise and reclassify the temporal adverbs listed in [Lu and Ma 1999] into four classes of semantic roles, namely, time, frequency, duration, and time manner. The descriptive features enable us to distingu...

The study on Automatic Recognizing usages of Modern Chinese Adverbs is one of the important parts of the NLP-oriented research of Chinese Functional words Knowledge Base. To solve the problems of the existing rule-based method of adverbs’ usages recognition based on the previous work, this paper has studied automatically recognizing common Chinese adverbs’ usages using statistical methods. Thre...