Laz spatial adverbs are notional lexical items making up rather numerous and semantically diverse groups. They play a significant role in linguistic representation of structures determining which circumstances with what features an action, conveyed by verb, proceeds. satellites outside verb stem; sentences, they occur as adverbial modifiers convey space-related information: direction movement p...

This paper discusses several data concerning the distribution of adverbs, primarily focusing on data from European Portuguese. It is defended that a proper understanding of the behavior of adverbs must take into account several factors that do not necessarily converge. In particular, it is argued that the following variables must be taken into account: inherent vs non-inherent meaning of the ad...

In recent years, theoretical and computational linguistics has paid much attention to linguistic items that form scales. In NLP, much research has focused on ordering adjectives by intensity (tiny < small). Here, we address the task of automatically ordering English adverbs by their intensifying or diminishing effect on adjectives (e.g. extremely small < very small). We experiment with 4 differ...

Sentiment Analysis, an important area of Natural Language Understanding, often relies on the assumption that lexemes carry inherent sentiment values, as reflected in specialized resources. We examine and measure the contribution that eight intensifying adverbs make to the sentiment value of sentences, as judged by human annotators. Our results show, first, that the intensifying adverbs are not ...

We introduce the first benchmark for a new problem — recognizing human action adverbs (HAA): “Adverbs Describing Human Actions” (ADHA). We demonstrate some key features of ADHA: a semantically complete set of adverbs describing human actions, a set of common, describable human actions, and an exhaustive labeling of simultaneously emerging actions in each video. We commit an in-depth analysis on...

While French degree words have been assigned several syntactic categories, we show that they are rather highy ‘polymorphic’ adverbs (they occur in all syntactic domains), which select the expression they modify on a purely semantic basis. Like French adverbs in general, they occur both to the left and to the right of the head they modify. Following previous work (a.o. van Noord and Bouma 1994, ...

Adverbs are words that used to change, modify or qualify several types of other including adjectives, verbs, adverbs. There five basic adverbs in the English language, namely Manner, Time, Place, Frequency, and Degree. In Arabic there just two Time Place. This research aimed prove adverb time exists both languages compare state similarities differences between languages. Most importantly, show ...