Three distinctions seem relevant for the scope properties of adverbs: their function (adjuncts or complements), their prosody (incidental or integrated) and their lexical semantics (parenthetical or non parenthetical). We propose an analysis in which the scope of French adverbs is aligned with their syntactic properties, relying on a view of adjuncts as loci for quantification, a linearization ...

Chinese allows manner and degree adverbs to occur further to the left than is possible in English and other languages; compare Amanda will (*loudly) be (loudly) greeting her guests (loudly) with Lisi (qingqingde) ba zhuozi (qingqingde) qiao-le yixia “Lisi lightly knocked once on the table,” with the manner adverbial to the left of BA. It is proposed here that this results from the two languages...

1. L. K a r t t u n e n ( K a r t t u n e n 1970, 1971) demons t r a t ed t h a t i n E n g l i s h t h e r e e x i s t s i x c l a s s e s o f p r e d i c a t e s t h a t d i f f e r as f o r t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p s h o l d i n g be tween the p r e d i c a t e and i t s s e n t e n t i a l complement: f a c t i v e s , p o s i t i v e and n e g a t i v e two-way i m p l i o a t i v e s...

Consumer feedbacks have been widely used for product improvement. These consumer reviews reveal customer sentiments (e.g., like/dislike, fulfilled/unfulfilled etc.) about products and the degree of sentiments as well. These reviews are good sources to gauge customer feelings, which are important to make essential business decisions. In this research, we analyzed textual movie reviews semi-autom...

Comprehension includes interpreting sentences in terms of aspectual categories such as processes (Harry climbed) and culminations (Harry reached the top). Adding a verbal modifier such as for many years to a culmination coerces its interpretation from one to many culminations. Previous studies have found that coercion increases lexical decision and meaning judgment time, but not eye fixation ti...