Title of article
Domains for adverbs
Author/Authors
?ystein Nilsen، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
Pages
39
From page
809
To page
847
Abstract
Speaker oriented adverbs are argued to be excluded from downwards entailing envi-ronments, i.e. they are argued to be positive polarity items. This behavior is derived by analyzing them as domain shrinking possible world quantifiers (see Kadman and Landman [Ling. and Philos. 16 (1993) 353] on negative polarity and domain expansion). It is argued that this analysis derives the major distributional properties of these adverbs. Particular attention is given to the adverb possibly.
Keywords
Syntax–semantics interface , Possible worlds , Veridicality , Positive polarity items , Functional heads , Adverb order , Monotonicity
Journal title
Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
Serial Year
2004
Journal title
Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
Record number
1290330
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