Towards the semantics of sentence adverbials
Eva Koktová · 1983
In the present paper we argue that the so-called sentence adverbials (typically, adverbs like probably, admittedly,...) should be generated, in the framework of Functional Generative Description, by means of a special deep case - Complementation of Attitude (CA) on grounds of their special behaviour in the topic-focus articulation (TFA) of a sentence. From the viewpoint of the translation of CA expressions (and also of the multiple occurrence thereof inside a sentence) into a calculus of intensional logic, it should be noted that the TFA properties of CA expressions are directly correlated to the scope properties thereof. Our approach, which is stated in terms of a linguistic theory, serves as a basis for an algorithm of analysis of CA for purposes of a system of man-machine communication without a pre-arranged data base.