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      Toward a more fine-grained theory of temporal adverbials

      Semantics and Linguistic Theory
      Linguistic Society of America

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          In this paper I propose that a core property of adverbial meaning is the ability (or the lack thereof) of an adverbial to introduce a new time discourse referent. The core data comes from 'that same day' in narrative discourse. I argue that unlike other previously studied temporal adverbials—which introduce a new time discourse referent and relate it to the speech time or a previously mentioned time—'that same' retrieves two salient times from the input context, i.e. it is "twice-anaphoric", without introducing one of its own. Moreover, I argue that the adverb 'currently' is like 'that same day' in not introducing a new time discourse referent; it constrains the temporal location of a described eventuality relative to a salient time previously introduced into the discourse context. The analysis that I propose is implemented within Compositional Discourse Representation Theory. It illustrates how adverbial meaning can be integrated within a more general theory of temporal interpretation.

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          Semantics and Linguistic Theory
          SALT
          Linguistic Society of America
          2163-5951
          September 03 2011
          September 03 2011
          : 21
          : 652
          Article
          10.3765/salt.v21i0.2622
          e121a215-942a-4d16-8930-cd694c13868c
          © 2011
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