Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantiication

Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantification

Indeenites, Adverbs of Quantiication and Focus Semantics Mats Rooth 1 Introduction

Domain Restriction in Quanti cation is Independent of

The interaction between intonational marking (focus) and domain restriction in adverbial quantiication has been a matter of debate for a number of years. Most theories assume some semantic representation of focus that innuences the interpretation of quantiiers. Views on this interdependence range from a direct mapping of descriptive content between the two representations to a more indirect int...

Context Effects on Interpretation and Intonation

\Association-with-focus" data suggest an innuence of intonational focus on the interpretation of quantiicational adverbs. Recent theories explain this as an eeect mediated by the discourse topic in the context: focus constrains the topic, and domain restriction in quantiication is dependent on the topic. However, some focus projection data make the former dependence implausible. I argue for a t...

A Corpus-based Analysis of Epistemic Stance Adverbs in Essays Written by Native English Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners

Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description, this study explored the use of epistemic stance adverbs in academic essays written by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners. Follow...