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4. Strong generative capacity of RST, SDRT and discourse dependency DAGSs

  • Laurence Danlos
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Constraints in Discourse
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Abstract

The aim of this paper0 is to compare the discourse structures proposed in rst, sdrt and dependency dags which extend the semantic level of mtt for discourses. The key question is the following: do these formalisms allow the representation of all the discourse structures which correspond to felicitous discourses and exclude those which correspond to infelicitous discourses? Hence the term of “strong generative capacity” taken from formal grammars.

Abstract

The aim of this paper0 is to compare the discourse structures proposed in rst, sdrt and dependency dags which extend the semantic level of mtt for discourses. The key question is the following: do these formalisms allow the representation of all the discourse structures which correspond to felicitous discourses and exclude those which correspond to infelicitous discourses? Hence the term of “strong generative capacity” taken from formal grammars.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. 1. Constraints in discourse 1
  5. Part I. The Right Frontier
  6. 2. Troubles on right frontier 29
  7. 3. The moving right frontier 53
  8. Part II. Comparing Frameworks
  9. 4. Strong generative capacity of RST, SDRT and discourse dependency DAGSs 69
  10. 5. Rhetorical distance revisited: A parameterized approach 97
  11. 6. Underspecified discourse representation 117
  12. Part III. The Cognitive Perspective
  13. 7. Dependency precedes independence: Online evidence from discourse processing 141
  14. 8. Accessing discourse referents introduced in negated phrases: Evidence for accomodation? 159
  15. Part IV. Language Specific Phenomena
  16. 9. Complex anaphors in discourse 181
  17. 10. The discourse functions of the present perfect 201
  18. 11. German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse 225
  19. 12. A discourse-relational approach to continuation 249
  20. 13. German vorfeld-filling as constraint interaction 267
  21. Index 291
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.172.04dan

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. 1. Constraints in discourse 1
  5. Part I. The Right Frontier
  6. 2. Troubles on right frontier 29
  7. 3. The moving right frontier 53
  8. Part II. Comparing Frameworks
  9. 4. Strong generative capacity of RST, SDRT and discourse dependency DAGSs 69
  10. 5. Rhetorical distance revisited: A parameterized approach 97
  11. 6. Underspecified discourse representation 117
  12. Part III. The Cognitive Perspective
  13. 7. Dependency precedes independence: Online evidence from discourse processing 141
  14. 8. Accessing discourse referents introduced in negated phrases: Evidence for accomodation? 159
  15. Part IV. Language Specific Phenomena
  16. 9. Complex anaphors in discourse 181
  17. 10. The discourse functions of the present perfect 201
  18. 11. German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse 225
  19. 12. A discourse-relational approach to continuation 249
  20. 13. German vorfeld-filling as constraint interaction 267
  21. Index 291
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