Open AccessPragmatic constraints on (adverbial) (temporal) quantification
Author(s) -
Orin Percus
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.22.2001.104
Subject(s) - adverbial , computer science , limit (mathematics) , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis
Even if we can generate a logical form, principles of use may limit the ways in which we can use it. In this paper, I motivate one such principle of use, and explore its effects. Much of the discussion involves kinds of sentences that have received attention in the literature on "individual-level predicates".