Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

Asher, Nicholas

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“…The main references are Kamp and Reyle (1993), Rossdeutscher (1994), Cooper et al (1994), Asher (1993). The exposition here follows mostly Cooper et al (1994).…”

Section: A Appendix the Semantic Basics Of Drtmentioning

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Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian

2003

Modifying Adjuncts

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An adjunct-DP in the free instrumental case occurs in a number of surface positions where the DP is syntactically optional. does not depend on any element in the sentence, and has a number of different interpretations. We introduce Bailyn's proposal which postulates a uniform syntactic environment for all the uses of instr. This calls for a uniform semantics of these DPs which can nevertheless accomodate the different interpretations. Starting with the hypothesis of Roman Jakobson about the semantics of the instrumental case we formulate a semantic interpretation theory based on abduction. We give a uniform semantics for three different adjunct uses of instr in this framework. In the concJuding part of the paper we discuss some possible alternatives and ramifkations as weH as questions and objections raised with respect to the treatment proposed in this paper.

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“…The main references are Kamp and Reyle (1993), Rossdeutscher (1994), Cooper et al (1994), Asher (1993). The exposition here follows mostly Cooper et al (1994).…”

Section: A Appendix the Semantic Basics Of Drtmentioning

confidence: 95%

Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian

2003

Modifying Adjuncts

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“…Asher (1993) suggests that there is a spectrum of world immanence. Events and states, which have causal, spatial and temporal properties, have high world immanence: "purely abstract objects" such as propositions and thoughts have very low world immanence, and their individuation principles depend more on the means we use to describe them than on independent properties of objects in the world.…”

Section: The Referential Behavior Of Different Types Of Clausally Intmentioning

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Information Structure and the Accessibility of Clausally Introduced Referents

Hegarty¹,

Gundel²,

Borthen³

2001

Theoretical Linguistics

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“…Works on temporal relations between two eventualities e 1 and e 2 examine exclusively if one of the eventuality precedes, includes or overlaps the other one (Moens and Steedman, 1988;Asher, 1993;Pustejovsky, 1995). All these temporal relations suppose that e 1 = e 2 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Unlike object coreference, coreference between events has hardly been studied in detail, except for a (pro)nominal phrase referring to an event, see among others (Webber, 1988;Asher, 1993). Nevertheless, there is a number of other cases of event coreference since the description of an event e can be of three types: it is either a (pro)nominal phrase, or a sentence or an abstraction which is not linguistically realized.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Event Coreference Between Two Sentences

Danlos¹

2001

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

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Abstract. Works on temporal relations between two eventualities e1 and e2 always suppose that e1 = e2. We will concentrate on cases where e1 = e2, i.e. on event coreference. Unlike object coreference, event coreference has rarely been studied in detail, except for (pro)nominal phrases referring to an event. We focus here on event coreference between two sentences. This study will put forward unusual linguistic phenomena, e.g. coreference between existentially quantified elements. These phenomena, which question well-established myths, have to be taken into account in text understanding and text generation. They will lead us to introduce and define new discourse relations which will be discussed in the framework of SDRT.

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Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

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Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian

Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian

Information Structure and the Accessibility of Clausally Introduced Referents

Event Coreference Between Two Sentences

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