Adverb Orientation: Semantics and Pragmatics

Orientation is a well-known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives. Current cognitive (Nakamura 1997) and Event Logic (Garcia Nunez 1999) approaches have discov...

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Published inEstudios de Linguistica Inglesa Aplicada (ELIA) Vol. 3; pp. 299 - 315
Main Author Garcia Nunez, Jose Maria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2002
Subjects
Adverbs
Cognitive Grammar
English
Logic of Language
Scope
Semantic Roles
Semantics Discourse Relationship
Thematic Roles
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Summary:Orientation is a well-known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives. Current cognitive (Nakamura 1997) and Event Logic (Garcia Nunez 1999) approaches have discovered simpler semantic components in adverb orientation. This study presents cases of Subject Oriented Adverbs pragmatically oriented to non-explicit participants and demonstrates that the proposed analyses in terms of simpler meaning components provide a good basis for a predictive and explanatory account of adverb orientation to both explicit and implicit participants. Adapted from the source document
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ISSN:1576-5059