21.5200, Qs: Adjectives Modifying Sentence-Level Adverbs

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Subject: 21.5200, Qs: Adjectives Modifying Sentence-Level Adverbs

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Date: 19-Dec-2010
From: Elizabeth Coppock [eecoppock at gmail.com]
Subject: Adjectives Modifying Sentence-Level Adverbs
 

	
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:48:18
From: Elizabeth Coppock [eecoppock at gmail.com]
Subject: Adjectives Modifying Sentence-Level Adverbs

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Hi linguists,

I am looking for formal semantic treatments of sentence-level adverbs like
'possibly' and 'obviously' modifying an attributive adjective, as in 'an
obviously tall man', 'a possibly relevant article', etc.  I am finding lots
of treatments of these kinds of adverbs modifying sentences, as in
'Obviously, he will come,' but I am unable to find anything on the
adjective-modifying case. Can anyone point me in the right direction?  I
would be much obliged.

Thanks!

Elizabeth Coppock
eecoppock at gmail.com
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lund University 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics




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