We extend de Groote’s approach to natural language or Montague semantics with labels and combine it with Parsons event semantics. We argue that within this framework continuations allow one to deal with adverbs.

Whether future morphemes in languages are temporal or modal operators is a central question in the semantics of the future. Most analyses (with the exception of [14]; see its rebuttal in [14]), agree that future morphemes do convey modality, and do not always make reference to future times. We study here the temporal (future time) reading of the future (John will arrive at 5pm), which we call ‘...

0. Introduction It is well known that Romance languages have certain weak or clitic adverbs.1 In this paper, we examine the syntactic properties of a subclass of scalar (beaucoup, 'much') and manner (bien, 'well') adverbs in French, which seems to make them good candidates for being weak forms in the sense of Cardinaletti & Starke (1994) (by contrast with -ment derived strong forms). We show th...

The paper investigates the pragmatic effects of word order variation in German, specifically concerning the ordering of adverb and nominal arguments. The behaviour of verbs of creation in combination with adverbs and indefinite object NPs proves that the allegedly neutral word order NP Adverb Verb is not really presupposition free. I claim that indefinite object NPs to the left of manner adverb...

F0 characteristics were analyzed and modeled for the output of speech with natural prosody in communication systems. Lexicons were selected to express speaker's attitude during the human speech generation process. We modeled the prosody using information of constituent lexicons expressing attitude and markedness. Motivated by preliminary observations of prosodic variations in conversational spe...

Terms from the HELP System's vocabulary were matched with Meta-1 terms on a word by word basis as well as on a phrase by phrase basis with the goal of exploring what steps might need to be taken if some future version (Meta-N) of the Metathesaurus were to be used to represent clinical data. Word by word matching revealed that 54% of HELP words were present in Meta-l, while 8% of HELP phrases ha...

This study investigates expressions of propositional modality (epistemic and evidential) in Japanese and Chinese. It aims to highlight some fundamental characteristics of and differences between the modal systems in the two languages. It has been found that adverbs in Chinese play a more important role than adverbs in Japanese in expressing modal meanings. This study has also found that more mo...

This paper investigates how linguistic expressions of time, in particular temporal adverbs and verb tense morphemes, are used to establish temporal reference at the level of brain physiology. First, a formal semantic analysis of tense and temporal adverbs is outlined. It is argued that computing temporal reference amounts to solving a constraint satisfaction problem. Next, the results of an eve...