Discourse relations are a bridge between sentence-level semantics and discourselevel semantics. They can be signalled explicitly with discourse connectives or conveyed implicitly, to be inferred by a comprehender. The same discourse units can be related in more than one way, signalled by multiple connectives. But multiple connectives aren’t necessary: Multiple relations can be conveyed even whe...

Resumo O artigo se propõe a descrever e analisar, na língua Guajá (família Tupí-Guaraní), o fenômeno que ocorre no núcleo de um predicado ao haver mudança posição uma expressão adverbial para início da sentença. Com essa alteração posição, surge sufixo do marca pessoa passa ser expressa por paradigma típico orações menos finitas, nos leva interpretar processo como tipo subordinação. Do ponto vi...

We study a group of adverbials that are composed of a preposition and a noun denoting an emotion or an inner state, such as v jarosti ‘in a rage’, s udovol’stviem ‘with pleasure’, ot radosti ‘out of joy’, s gorja ‘out of grief’, na udivlenie ‘to the surprise of’, k dosade ‘to one’s disappointment’ etc. Being collocations, they occupy an intermediate position between free phrases and idioms. On ...

How come we can represent Bigfoot even though Bigfoot does not exist, given that representing something involves bearing a relation to it and we cannot bear relations to what does not exist? This is the problem of intentional inexistence. This paper develops a two-step solution to this problem, involving (first) an adverbial account of conscious representation, or phenomenal intentionality, and...

This paper presents an in-depth study of the semantics of the French discourse marker alors ‘at that time, then, so’. Its evolution from temporal adverbial with local anaphoric meaning to polysemous marker including conversation management uses in spoken French is traced through a systematic diachronic corpus analysis. Of particular interest in this perspective is the relationship between the d...