Constraints in discourse / / edited by Anton Benz, Peter Kuhnlein

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 292 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Constraints (Linguistics); Discourse analysis
• Altri autori: BenzAnton <1965-> KuhnleinPeter
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Constraints in Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Constraints in discourse -- An introduction -- 1. General remarks -- 2. The cognitive status of rhetorical relations -- 3. Topics in the analysis of discourse constraints -- 4. The ldm -- 5. Rhetorical Structure Theory -- Graphical convention -- 6. SRDT -- 7. About the papers -- Bibliography -- Part I. The Right Frontier -- Troubles on the right frontier -- 1. Overview -- 2 .An introduction to the Right Frontier Constraint and its formalisation -- 3. An Application of the Right Frontier to Ellipsis -- 4. RFC and Definites -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The moving right frontier -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chameleon relations in monologic discourse -- 2.1 Topic Insertion? -- 2.2 Underspecification? -- 3. Content relations and interrogatives -- 3.1 Narrationq versus Elaborationq -- 3.2 A solution using a question-answer topic -- 4. More general and methodological issues -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. Comparing Frameworks -- Strong generative capacity of rst, sdrt and discourse dependency dagss -- 1. Introduction -- 2. RST -- 2.1 Graphical representations and predicate-argument relations -- 2.2 Nucleus/Satellite distinction -- 3. SDRD -- 3.1 Box representations and graphs for SDRSs -- 3.2 Topic nodes -- 3.3 Right Frontier Constraint -- 3.4 Subordinating conjunctions and linear order -- 3.5 Summary on rst and sdrt, discourses in the canonical order -- 4. Discourse dependency dags -- 5. Strong generative capacity -- 5.1 rst trees and their equivalents in the other representations -- 5.2 Dependency dags without any equivalent rst tree -- 5.2.1 Non tree shaped dags without any equivalent rst tree -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Rhetorical distance revisited - A parameterized approach*. ; 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Theories of discourse-structural accessibility -- 2.2 RST in a nutshell -- 3. A parameterized framework for rhetorical distance -- 3.1 Trees and paths -- 3.2 Parameters -- 4. Reconstruction of the theories within the framework -- 4.1 Stack Model (GS, Grosz and Sidner 1986) -- 4.2 Veins Theory (VT, Cristea et al. 1998) -- 4.3 Rhetorical distance approach (KK, Kibrik and Krasavina 2005) -- 4.4 Theoretical issues: summary -- 5. Comparative empirical evaluation -- 5.1 Preliminaries -- 5.2 Rhetorical distance and pronominalization -- 5.3 Effects of referential distance -- 5.4 Empirical evaluation: summary and related work -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Underspecified discourse representation* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse structure -- 3. Representing discourse structure -- 3.1 Underspecified and fully specified discourse representations -- 3.2 Formal foundations of discourse representations -- 3.2.1 Arranging discourse relations in CLLS -- 3.2.2 Specifying discourse relations in an extension of CLLS -- 4. Constructing and resolving discourse constraints -- 4.1 The syntax-discourse interface -- 4.2 An extended example -- 5. Treeness of discourse structures -- 5.1 Crossed dependencies -- 5.2 Non-continuous discourse constituents -- 5.3 N-ary RST trees -- 6. Related work -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. The Cognitive Perspective -- Dependency precedes independence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The interpretation of definite DPs -- 3. The processing of definite DPs -- 3.1 Previous processing evidence -- 3.2 Previous ERP findings -- 4. The present study -- 4.1 Norming study -- 4.2 ERP study2 -- 4.2.1 Method -- 4.2.2 Results: Behavioral data -- 4.2.3 Results: ERP data -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Accessing discourse referents introduced in negated phrases -- 1. Introduction. ; 2. Previous Study: Double Negation -- 3. Current Study: Bathroom Sentences -- 3.1 Experiment 1 -- 3.1.1 Method -- 3.1.2 Results and Discussion -- 4 Experiment 2 -- 4.1 Method -- 4.2 Results and Discussion -- 5. General Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Part IV. Language Specific Phenomena -- Complex anaphors in discourse1 -- 1. Overview -- 2. Types of and constraints on complexation processes -- 2.1 What is 'abstractness'? -- 2.2 Types of anaphoric complexation -- 2.2.1 Maintenance by neutral anaphors -- 2.2.2 Maintenance by lexical anaphors -- 2.2.3 Ontology-changing anaphors -- 2.3 Constraints on ontology changing complexation -- 3. The resolution of complex anaphors -- 3.1 Disambiguation by ontological features -- 3.2 Disambiguation by lexical features -- 3.3 Disambiguation by conceptual knowledge -- 4. Summary and outlook -- References -- The discourse functions of the present perfect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: the semantics of the English perfect -- 3. Inference patterns needed to find the value of X in English -- 4. Discourse Functions of the English Present Perfect -- Type (i) - (iia,b) -- Type (i) -- Type (ii-a) -- Type (ii-b): Topic Negotiation QAP -- Type (iii) -- 5. The Japanese perfect -- 5.1 Summary of the Japanese -te-i-ru data -- 5.2 The discourse functions of Japanese -te-i- -- 5.3 Differences between the Japanese and English samples -- 6. Summary -- References -- German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Right dislocation vs. afterthought: formal differences -- 3. The discourse relation Afterthought -- 4. The discourse function of right dislocation -- 4.1 To the left and to the right: left dislocation, right dislocation and hanging topic -- 4.2 Right dislocation and the 'foreground' vs. 'background' distinction -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- References. ; A discourse-relational approach to continuation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevant syntactic properties -- 3. Assigning communicative weight -- 4. A discourse structural account -- 5. HPSG analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- German Vorfeld-filling as constraint -interaction* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Expectations about vorfeld-filling -- 2.1 Subject as unmarked vorfeld filler -- 2.2 English Topicalization: poset-elements -- 2.3 Topic or Theme -- 3. Types of vorfeld-fillers in German -- 3.1 Topic -- 3.2 Contrast -- 3.3 Scene-Setting -- 3.4 Problems for the subsequent analysis -- 4. The ranking of vorfeld-fillers -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Index -- The Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: The filling of the vorfeld (= clause-initial position in German declarative clauses) depends on information structural rather than strictly syntactic constraints. Referential phrases of one of the following three types are eligible for the vorfeld: scene-setting elements, contrastive elements and topics. The main point of this paper is to show that these types seem to be ranked: scene-setting elements are the most likely ones to appear in the vorfeld, followed by contrastive elements and finally by topics. Note that topics are thus not the preferred vorfeld-fillers even in German (see Speyer 2007; Frey 2004a). The difference in likelihood to be in the vorfeld can be modelled by an Optimality Theoretic account that is sketched out in this paper.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constraints in discourse
• ISBN: 1-282-15210-6; 9786612152108; 90-272-9143-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823245503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., v. 172.