We argue in this paper that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure, instead work anaphorically to contribute relational meaning, with only indirect dependence on discourse structure. This allows a simpler discourse structure to provide scaffolding for compositional semantics, and reveals multi...

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. Situations form the link between adverbial quantifiers and presuppositions, as adverbial quantifiers are taken to quantify over situatio...

This paper explores the relation between interpretations of while in English and mentre Italian introducing adverbial clauses. Central / clauses express a temporal/aspectual modification proposition host clause. Peripheral make accessible from discourse context enhancing relevance proposition. In one approach, introduced by adversative are analyzed as ‘less integrated’ with associated clause th...