{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,28]],"date-time":"2025-05-28T04:21:10Z","timestamp":1748406070433,"version":"3.41.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"PPUFU - Portal de Peri\u00f3dicos da Universidade Federal de Uberl\u00e2ndia","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]],"date-time":"2025-05-27T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1748304000000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Dom. Ling."],"abstract":"<jats:p>This paper discusses the interaction between vague frequency adjuncts like muitas vezes \u2018often\u2019 and sentential and non-sentential temporal location adjuncts like quando o Pedro est\u00e1 em Paris \u2018when Peter is in Paris\u2019 or aos domingos \u2018on Sundays\u2019, in constructions like quando est\u00e1 em Paris, o Pedro vai muitas vezes ao Louvre \u2018when he is in Paris, Pedro {often goes to the Louvre \/ goes to the Louvre many times} or aos domingos, o Pedro vai muitas vezes \u00e0 missa \u2018on Sundays, Peter {often goes to mass \/ goes to mass many times}. The first sentence, whose French counterpart (with souvent) is discussed in the literature, is ambiguous between a wide scope reading of the frequency adjunct over the temporal locating adjunct (\u2018often, when he is in Paris, Peter goes to the Louvre\u2019) and a narrow scope reading (\u2018whenever he is in Paris, Peter goes to the Louvre many times\u2019). The same happens, mutatis mutandis, with the second sentence. The interactions between the two types of adjuncts, and whether or not scope ambiguities between them arise, depend on various grammatical factors, which will be discussed in some detail. These include both semantic-pragmatic restrictions, involving the connected propositions and\/or the mentioned time intervals, and syntactic restrictions, essentially involving the post-verbal or pre-verbal position of the frequency adjunct. It is also pointed out that the specific subtype of the frequency adjunct, on the one hand, and the specific subtype of the locating adjunct, on the other hand, are key fators to take into account. Thus, for example, frequency adjuncts like muitas vezes \u2018often\u2019 or por vezes \u2018sometimes\u2019 are often associated with scope ambiguities, whereas adjuncts like poucas vezes \u2018seldom\u2019 or adverbial muito \u2018a lot\u2019 (as in o Pedro vai muito ao Louvre \u2018Pedro goes to the Louvre a lot\u2019) are not; temporal locating adjuncts like quando \u2018when\u2019 X, depois dos \u2018after the\u2019 N\u00a2 or aos \u2018on\u2019 N\u00a2 are often associated with scope ambiguities, whereas adjuncts like depois de todos os \u2018after every\u2019 N\u00a2 or todos os \u2018every\u2019 N\u00a2 are not. Data from corpora of Portuguese newspaper texts, namely cetemp\u00fablico, is provided throughout the paper, for illustration. European Portuguese is the language variety that is centrally considered.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.14393\/dlv19a2025-21","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]],"date-time":"2025-05-27T20:44:54Z","timestamp":1748378694000},"page":"e019021","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Ambiguidades de escopo com &lt;i&gt;muitas vezes&lt;\/i&gt; e adjuntos frequentativos afins","Scope ambiguities with &lt;i&gt;muitas vezes&lt;\/i&gt; \u2018often\u2019 and similar frequency adjunts"],"prefix":"10.14393","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0288-2604","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Telmo","family":"M\u00f3ia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"5515","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]]},"container-title":["Dom\u00ednios de Lingu@gem"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/seer.ufu.br\/index.php\/dominiosdelinguagem\/article\/download\/76281\/41251","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/seer.ufu.br\/index.php\/dominiosdelinguagem\/article\/download\/76281\/41251","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]],"date-time":"2025-05-27T20:44:54Z","timestamp":1748378694000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/seer.ufu.br\/index.php\/dominiosdelinguagem\/article\/view\/76281"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14393\/dlv19a2025-21","relation":{},"ISSN":["1980-5799"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1980-5799","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,27]]}}}