Discourse Structure and Sentential Information Structure
In this article, we argue that discourse structure constrains the set of possible constituents in a discourse that can provide the relevant context for structuring information in a target sentence, while information structure critically constrains discourse structure ambiguity. For the speaker, disc...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of logic, language, and information language, and information, 2003-07, Vol.12 (3), p.337-350 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this article, we argue that discourse structure constrains the set of possible constituents in a discourse that can provide the relevant context for structuring information in a target sentence, while information structure critically constrains discourse structure ambiguity. For the speaker, discourse structure provides a set of possible contexts for continuation, while information structure assignment is independent of discourse structure. For the hearer, information structure of a sentence together with discourse structure instructs dynamic semantics for how rhematic information should be used to update the meaning representation of the discourse (Polanyi & van den Berg, 1996). 3 Figures, 9 References. Adapted from the source document |
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| ISSN: | 0925-8531 |