<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Following a conversation with Dan and Stephan, I'm trying to find tests </div><div>to distinguish scopal v. non-scopal adverbs. We thought that "probably"</div><div>and "quickly" constitute clear cases of each type ("Every student probably</div><div>left" / "Every student quickly left") but we weren't sure how to classify</div><div>"already" and "usually", and didn't know what tests to apply.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tried poking around in Google scholar, but am finding myself stymied</div><div>by the fact that people tend to use the word "scope" to describe simple</div><div>functor-argument relations (especially when it comes to adverbs, it seems),</div><div>and so I thought I'd try asking on-list. Does anyone know of relevant </div><div>work on this question?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Emily</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div></div></font></span></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div></div> </div>