Adverbs and semantic inferences
Madis Saluveer · 1982
in English there exist six classes of predicates that differ as for the relationships holding between the predicate and its sentential complement: factives, positive and negative two-way implioatives, positive and negative one-way implicatives, and non-determlnatlves. H. 8ira (~im 1974) validated the classific-ation for the Estonian lansuage. K & ~ drew their evidence from verbs and adjectives. Now a question poses itself: do the • principles underlying their classification hold also for ~dverbs, and if yes, do they exhibit any differences parison with verbs and adjectives. in com-According to Karttunen the relationship between the predicate and its sentential complement is determined by the se~antics of the predicate, and it can slwaye be computed if