<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p>I think <i>unexpectedly</i> is scopal in at least some circumstances. Specifically I would say the semantics of <i>unexpectedly</i> is modal (in a broad sense) - e.g., I could treat it in terms of possible worlds that I'm considering at some timepoint t - if in only 1% of possible worlds does P happen, and P actually happens by t' (where t' > t) then unexpected(P). This is very crude and incomplete, but all I'm trying to do here is convey the modal intuition.<br> </p> <p> Under this interpretation:<br> </p> <p> unexpected(not(win(Kim))) <br> </p> <p>means that at time t I thought not(win(Kim)) had 1% chance, but at t' not(win(Kim)) has come to pass</p> <p>this isn't the same as:<br> </p> <p> not(unexpected(win(Kim)))<br> </p> which means it-is-not-the-case that [ at time t I thought win(Kim) had 1% chance and at t' win(Kim) has come to pass ] i.e., either I expected Kim to win all along or Kim actually didn't win<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">Also, in (3), unexpectedly could be a sentence-initial discourse <div>adverb (scopal?) or an adverb extracted from lower in the clause...</div> </blockquote> <br> As I remember it, the discussion about possible sentence situation meaning is a semantic one rather than depending on whether there's extraction or not. <br> <br> All best,<br> <br> Ann<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/05/2017 21:13, Emily M. Bender wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAMype6d4ORf9knstr2V0AnJhTfWPM-DtNG1vYivGGrQXYb6xgg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Thanks, Ann, for the quick reply! This connects to other things I've been <div>curious about recently, including how we decide if something like "unexpectedly"</div> <div>is scopal or not. Also, in (3), unexpectedly could be a sentence-initial discourse</div> <div>adverb (scopal?) or an adverb extracted from lower in the clause...</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Emily</div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Ann Copestake <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p>I think the idea is to represent the contrast between:<br> </p> <p>1 We could unexpectedly close the window.</p> <p>either ability to close or actual closure is unexpected<br> </p> <p>2 We did not unexpectedly close the window.</p> <p>only the closure (if it had happened) would be unexpected.</p> <p>I don't think this is actually the best analysis. For instance, for me,<br> </p> <p>3 Unexpectedly we did not close the window.</p> has another reading, which we are not capturing in MRS. Claudia Maiernborn would (perhaps) treat this as a sentential situation rather than an event modification and it may be that analysis is also available for 1 instead of the modal modification analysis.<br> <br> I'm afraid I don't have time to discuss this properly at the moment, though. I feel such a discussion has taken place, but don't remember the venue.<br> <br> All best,<br> <br> Ann <div> <div class="h5"><br> <br> <br> <div class="m_6920975839983985265moz-cite-prefix">On 10/05/2017 01:13, Emily M. Bender wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br> </div> <div>I'm curious about the different in analysis between neg_rel and (other) scopal adverbial </div> <div>modifiers on the one hand and modals on the other in the treatment of the INDEX:</div> <div><br> </div> <div>In (1) and (2), the INDEX of the whole MRS points to the ARG0 of _sleep_v_rel:</div> <div><br> </div> <div>(1) Kim doesn't sleep.</div> <div>(2) Kim probably sleeps.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>... where in (3) and (4) it points to the ARG0 of _can_v_rel and _would_v_rel respectively:</div> <div><br> </div> <div>(3) Kim can sleep.</div> <div>(4) Kim would sleep.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I'm wondering what difference we intend to model here. (This question comes up now</div> <div>because we're looking at negation in my grammar engineering class, and the out-of-the-box</div> <div>analysis for languages which express negation with an auxiliary has neg_rel falling</div> <div>in the latter class.)</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div>Emily</div> <div><br clear="all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> <div class="m_6920975839983985265gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div dir="ltr">Emily M. 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