A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora

Herausgeber: Webber, Bonnie Lynn

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: 1. identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference and 2. constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The author argues there is an intimate connection between formal sentential analysis and the synthesis of an appropriate conceptual model of the discourse. Some of the issues with the creation of this conceptual model are discussed in the second chapter, which follows a background to the thesis that catalogues the types of anaphoric expression available in English and lists the types of things that can be referred to anaphorically. The third and fourth chapters examine two types of anaphoric expression that do not refer to non-linguistic entities. The final chapter details three areas into which this research could potentially be extended. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9781138224056
• ISBN-10: 1138224057
• Artikelnr.: 52962601

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Synopsis; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.
Statement of the Problem 2. The Range of Discourse Anaphora 3. Historical
Background 3.1 Factors Influencing Anaphor Resolution 3.1.1 Number/gender
agreement 3.1.2 Backwards Anaphora constraint 3.1.3 Theme 3.1.4 Role
Inertia 3.1.5 Semantic Sectional Restrictions 3.1.6 Recency and Scene
Shifts 3.1.7 Implicit Causality 3.1.8 Possible Words 3.2 Methods of
Simplifying Anaphor Resolution 3.3. Previous Research on Verb Phrase
Ellipsis 4. The Range of Antecedents and Referents 4.1 Individuals 4.2 Sets
4.3 Stuff 4.4 Generics 4.5 Prototypes 4.6 Actions, Events, States,
Prepositions 4.7 Descriptions 4.8 Predicates 5. Fundamental Assumptions 6.
Thesis Organisation; Chapter 2. Definite Pronouns; 1. Introduction 1.1 The
Notion of a Discourse Model 1.2 The Importance of Descriptions 1.3 Warnings
to the Reader 1.4 Chapter Organisation 2. Factors in forming Discourse
Entity IDs 2.1 Noun Phrase Specificity 2.1.1 The Definite/Indefinite
Distinction 2.1.2 The Referential/Attributive Distinction 2.1.3 The
Specific/Non-specific Distinction 2.1.4 Non-standard Determiners 2.2
Member/Set Information 2.3 Three Uses of Plurals 2.4 Pronouns in the Input
2.5 Alternative Perspectives 2.6 Embedded Noun Phrases 3. Representational
Conventions 3.1 Noun Phrases in General 3.2 Singular Noun Phrases 3.3
Plural Noun Phrases 4. Preliminary Rule for Deriving Discourse Entity IDs
4.1 Informal Examples 4.2 Independent Quantifiers and Definite Descriptions
4.3 Dependent Quantifiers and Definite Descriptions 4.3.1 For each... there
exists 4.3.2 Class Restriction Dependencies 4.3.3 Quantifiers in class
Restrictions 5. Other Factors in Deriving Descriptions 5.1 Tense 5.2
Conditionals 5.3 Disjunction 5.4 Negation 6. Discourse Models and Anaphor
Resolution 7. Summary; Chapter 3. "One Anaphora"; 1. Introduction 2.
Requirements on a Representation 2.1 Preserving Noun Phrases as Structural
Units 2.2 Further Factoring of Descriptions 2.3 Disambiguating Word Senses
2.4 Resolving Definite Pronouns 3. Possible Representations 3.1 Syntactic
Surface Structure 3.2 Level-2 Interpretations 4. Identifying Candidate
Antecedents 5. Representatives of 'One'-Anaphora 5.1 That and Those 5.2 O
5.3 It 6. Non-explicit Descriptions 7. Summary; Chapter 4: Verb Phrases
Ellipsis; 1. Introduction 1.1 Historical Context 1.2 Chapter Organisation
2. System Requirements: Representational & Procedural 2.1 Surface Subjects
2.2 Pronouns 2.3 Existential Quantifiers 2.4 Negation 25 Plurals 2.6
Non-subject Relative Clauses 3. Surface Constraints on Verb Phrases
Ellipsis 3.1 Proximity 3.2 Structural Position 3.3 Voice Constraints 3.4
Negation 3.5 Tense and Aspect 4. Resolving Verb Phrase Ellipsis 5.
Inference and Verb Phrase Ellipsis 5.1 Conjoined Predicates and 'Headless'
relatives 5.2 Split Reciprocals 5.3 Embedded Descriptions 6. Summary;
Chapter 5. Conclusion; 1. Summary 2. Future Research 2.1 Data-driven and
expectation-driven Processes in Model Synthesis 2.2 Reference Requirements
in Limited Contexts 2.3 Sententially-evoked Discourse Entities 3. Epilogue;
Bibliography