Abstract
We address the question of why certain adverb and preposition phrases are only interpretable with respect to the discourse, and not just their own matrix clause. We show that, in many cases, an adverbial's compositional semantics explains why. We close by reporting on an annotation study aimed at providing specific evidence for how adverbials are interpreted with respect to the discourse.
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Forbes, K., & Webber, B. (2002). A semantic account of adverbials as discourse connectives. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2002 Workshop - 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 27–36). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1118121.1118125
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