TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "A Semantics and Pragmatics"

We offer a semantics and pragmatics of the pluperfect in narrative discourse. We rexamine in a formal model of implicature, how the reader's knowledge about the discourse, Gricean-maxims and causation contribute to the meaning of the pluperfect. By placing the analysis in a theory where the interactions among these knowledge resources can be precisely computed, we overcome some problems with previous Reichenbachian approaches. | A Semantics and Pragmatics for the Pluperfect Alex Lascarides Centre for Cognitive Science and Human Communication Research Centre University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland UK Nicholas Asher ỈRIT Université Paul Sabatier 118 Route de N ar bonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex France also at Centre for Cognitive Science and Department of Philosophy University of Texas Austin asherflirit .ir Abstract We offer a semantics and pragmatics of the pluperfect in narrative discourse. We examine in a formal model of implicature how the reader s knowledge about the discourse Gricean-maxims and causation contribute to the meaning of the pluperfect. By placing the analysis in a theory where the interactions among these knowledge resources can be precisely computed we overcome some problems with previous Re-ichenbachian approaches. 1 Introduction In this paper we investigate the impact of the pluperfect tense on the temporal and rhetorical structure of narrative discourse. We will use a representation framework for discourse structure called SDRT standing for Segmented Discourse Representation Theory Asher 1993 and a theory of discourse attachment called DICE standing for Discourse and Commonsense Entailment which is designed to compute temporal implicatures for natural language texts Lascarides and Asher 1991 . We will argue that the resultant analysis overcomes problems with Reichenbachian theories of tense . Kamp 1991a . 2 Limitations of Kamp s Account Kamp s 1991a Reichenbachian account of the pluperfect is problematic in at least three ways. Firstly the temporal structure of a text is determined solely The support of the Science and Engineering Research Council through project number GR G22077 is gratefully acknowledged. HCRC is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. from syntax so there can be no explanation of why even though 1 has the same tense structure as 2 they are interpreted differently no order is inferred .

• Báo cáo khoa học
• A Semantics and Pragmatics
• Alex Lascarides
• Long Papers
• scientific reports
• model language
• process natural language
• English Semantics
• English Pragmatics
• Studying meaning
• Adjective meanings
• Noun vocabulary
• Verbs and situations
• Tense and aspect
• Scope and quantification
• Conversational implicature
• Connecting utterances to the background
• Introduction to linguistics
• Sign language
• Applied Linguistics
• Ngôn ngữ học
• Lexical semantics
• Sentential semantics
• Dialog Control
• Natural Language System
• Dialog Control in a Natural Language System
• Expanding the Horizons
• Natural Language Interfaces
• Phil Hayes
• PROSPECTS OR PRACTICAL
• NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
• Workshops
• NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERACTION WITH MACHINES
• COMPUTER INTEBFACE DESIGN MURRAY TUROFF DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER
• IiVFORMATION SCIENCE IIEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERFACES TO DATABASE SYSTEMS
• A PANEL DISCUSSION
• database query system
• J
• Norwood Crout
• INTERFACES TO DATA BASE SYSTEMS
• Bozena Henisz
• INTERPRETING NATURAL LANGUAGE
• DATABASE UPDATES
• S
• Jermld Kaplan Jim David
• TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE
• INTERFACES TO DATABASES
• Gary G
• Hendrlx and William H
• Lewis
• DATABASES THEORETICAL
• TECHNICAL ISSUES
• TRANSPORTABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES
• PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES
• Barbara J
• Grosz
• THEORETICAL TECHNICAL ISSUES
• NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DATABASES
• R
• Petrick
• Domain Independent
• Database Access Systems
• ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
• ACCESS TO DATABASES
• A LOGIC PROGRAMMING PERSPECTIVE
• Sharon C
• Salveter David Maier
• PLANNING NATURAL LANGUAGE
• EXPRESSIONS REFERRING
• Douglas E
• Appelt
• THE TEXT SYSTEM
• NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
• Kathleen R
• M
• MENTING A DATABASE
• KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
• THE KEY TO THE SELECTION PROBLEM
• E
• Jeffrey Conklin David D
• McDonald
• A KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
• NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
• Stuart C
• Shapiro
• NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS
• NECESSARILY GRAMMATICAL
• EVEN COMPLETE
• UNGRAMHATICALITY
• EXTRA GRAMMATICALITY
• NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS
• Taxonomy
• Descriptions
• Individuals in Natural
• Language Understanding
• The Use of Ooject Special Knowledge
• Natural Language Processing
• Mark H
• Bursteln