This paper focuses on sentences containing stage and individual level predicates, examining changes in interpretation when they are combined with certain types of adverbial elements. Based on data from Finnish, I propose that the division of predicates into just two groups, into stage and individual level predicates (as is done eg. in Carlson (1977) and Kratzer (1988)), is not always clear-cut, but that there would seem to be different degrees of stage and individual levelness: individual level predicates can sometimes also have stage level properties. Secondly, I propose that the stage/individual level reading is not always contained in the predicate itself, but can be brought about by certain types of adverbials. Basically, I shall be concentrating on sentences such as the following:
(1) Sirkku kavelee. 'Sirkku walks'
(2) Sirkku kavelee ontuen. 'Sirkku walks with a limp'
(3) Sirkku kavelee
ontuen keskiviikkoisin. 'Sirkku walks with a limp on Wednesdays'
(4) Sirkku kavelee ontuen keskiviikkona. 'Sirkku walks with a limp on Wednesday'
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