Constraints in Discourse

Name: Constraints in Discourse
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Anton Benz Peter Kühnlein(Herausgeber*in)

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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
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