Three distinctions seem relevant for the scope properties of adverbs: their function (adjuncts or complements), their prosody (incidental or integrated) and their lexical semantics (parenthetical or non parenthetical). We propose an analysis in which the scope of French adverbs is aligned with their syntactic properties, relying on a view of adjuncts as loci for quantification, a linearization ...

Many vitreoretinal procedures are performed in offices and hospitals where cost control is important. We describe three useful devices and techniques that facilitate these procedures at minimal expense and often greater convenience. These include an accurate method for localising the pars plana without the use of callipers, an inexpensive, reliable, pressure regulated air pump for fluid-air exc...

This paper gives a theory-neutral account of the Adjunct Island Constraint. I show that the island status of adjuncts is a consequence of two properties that set them apart from arguments: optionality and independence. Adjuncts can be omitted without affecting grammaticality as in (1), and if an utterance may contain adjunct a or adjunct b, then it may also contain both a and b, which is exempl...

The Ambient Logic (AL) has been proposed for expressing spatial properties of processes of the Mobile Ambient calculus (MA). Restricting both the calculus and the logic to their static part yields static ambients (SA) and the static ambient logic (SAL), that form a model for queries about semistructured data. SAL also includes the non-standard fresh quantifier (I). This work adresses the questi...