Force Dimensions in Dutch Manner Adverbs: A self-paced reading study into inferences

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Goldschmidt, A.
dc.contributor.advisor	Zwarts, J.
dc.contributor.author	Dekker, S.V.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-20T17:00:33Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-20T17:00:33Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/24364
dc.description.abstract	The goal of this thesis is to find empirical evidence for the subdivision of manner adverbs into mono-dimensional adverbs such as lightly, directly modifying a quality dimension of the verb; and adverbs such as friendly, that target a more complex dimension. Importantly, complex adverbs like friendly can also modify basic quality dimensions via a cancellable inference. Evidence for this type of inference is presented in the form of questionnaires and a self-paced reading study. These inferences can be accounted for in Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics by means of additional conceptual information in the form of meaning axioms.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.format.extent	982846
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	Force Dimensions in Dutch Manner Adverbs: A self-paced reading study into inferences
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	adverbial modification, defeasible inferences, self-paced reading experiment, Neo-Davidsonian Semantics, conceptual knowledge
dc.subject.courseuu	Linguistics: the Study of the Language Faculty