@DariusJahandarie, interesting stuff. I'm not familiar with Neo-Davidsonian semantics, but from what I can understand, it sounds like 主に is not modifying the noun directly, and possibly not modifying the event either, but instead is modifying some other aspect of the utterance. という理解で宜しいでしょうか。

正直なところ、自分もよくわからないので…

What I do know is that the naive encoding of ∃e eat(e) & Agent(e, I) & Theme (e, Chocolate) & mainly(e) does not differentiate between the two meanings, which means that "mainly" should be doing something different.

Maybe we can encode 「主にチョコを食べる」 as mainly(∀e (eat(e) & Agent(e, I)) → Theme (e, Chocolate)) or mainly(∀e Agent(e, I) → eat(e) & Theme (e, Chocolate)), depending on which meaning, but this seems like a very complex encoding. I've certainly never seen anything like that done before.

(That is, you're making a statement about the chance of an event with certain properties having some other properties.)

@snailboat I went ahead and retagged them

@EiríkrÚtlendi 失恋する、って、状態動詞じゃない気がします。。失恋している、とか、失恋し続けている、って言わないと思うので

失恋し続けている、って聞くと、数人の人に告白して何回もフラれてる感じがします

@choco 説明どうもありがとう！残念ながら手元の参考書ではこんな詳細まではのっていません。 Navajo語だと telicity が動詞の構造で指定されていますけれど、日本語ですと紛らわしい場合があります。

とりあえずポストを訂正します。