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<p>Temporal <i>in</i>-adverbials lead a double life. Under one guise, they specify the durations of events; under another, they specify the durations of times throughout which certain events <i>don’t</i> take place. Each variety comes with its own seemingly idiosyncratic distributional restrictions. The distribution of the first class of expressions is restricted by the lexical aspect of VPs (Vendler, 1967; Dowty, 1979; Krifka, 1989, i.a.). The distribution of the second class is restricted by the polarity of sentences (Gajewski, 2005, 2007; Hoeksema, 2006; Iatridou &amp; Zeijlstra, 2017, 2021). I argue for a unified semantic analysis of both classes, which derives from one semantic principle their eclectic distribution: it must be possible for temporal <i>in</i>-adverbials to provide a maximally informative measure.</p>

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Maximal informativity accounts for the distribution of temporal in-adverbials

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    2026年1月5日

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  • Vincent Rouillard

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Temporal in-adverbials lead a double life. Under one guise, they specify the durations of events; under another, they specify the durations of times throughout which certain events don’t take place. Each variety comes with its own seemingly idiosyncratic distributional restrictions. The distribution of the first class of expressions is restricted by the lexical aspect of VPs (Vendler, 1967; Dowty, 1979; Krifka, 1989, i.a.). The distribution of the second class is restricted by the polarity of sentences (Gajewski, 2005, 2007; Hoeksema, 2006; Iatridou & Zeijlstra, 2017, 2021). I argue for a unified semantic analysis of both classes, which derives from one semantic principle their eclectic distribution: it must be possible for temporal in-adverbials to provide a maximally informative measure.