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Locating adverbials in discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2005

LAURE VIEU ,
MYRIAM BRAS ,
NICHOLAS ASHER  and
MICHEL AURNAGUE
LAURE VIEU
Affiliation:
IRIT, CNRS/LOA-ISTC-CNR, via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento, Italy e-mail: vieu@irit.fr
MYRIAM BRAS
Affiliation:
ERSS – Maison de la Recherche, Université Toulouse Le Mirail, 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France e-mail: bras@univ-tlse2.fr
NICHOLAS ASHER
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin, e-mail: nasher@mail.utexas.edu
MICHEL AURNAGUE
Affiliation:
IKER, CNRS Bayonne, e-mail: aurnague@univ-pau.fr
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Abstract

This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to discourse that we tackle, providing a descriptive analysis and a formal account grounded on Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. In particular, we deal with the frame introducer role of the LAs and with spatio-temporal interpretations of these markers occurring in trajectory descriptions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , July 2005 , pp. 173 - 193
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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