Reference to Abstract Objects in DiscourseSpringer Science & Business Media, 6 груд. 2012 р. - 455 стор. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. |
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... Event Anaphora 232 3 . Event - Type Anaphora and Using Event - Types to Construct Event Sums 235 4 . Proposition Anaphora 241 5 . Fact Anaphora 245 6 . Concept Anaphora in DRT 246 6.1 Concept Anaphora with Explicit Anaphors 246 6.2 VP ...
... Event Anaphora 232 3 . Event - Type Anaphora and Using Event - Types to Construct Event Sums 235 4 . Proposition Anaphora 241 5 . Fact Anaphora 245 6 . Concept Anaphora in DRT 246 6.1 Concept Anaphora with Explicit Anaphors 246 6.2 VP ...
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... event of his journey was the event of his walking , even though according to Kim these two events would appear to instantiate different properties . A deeper problem lurks here , however . It seems that even the question of the ...
... event of his journey was the event of his walking , even though according to Kim these two events would appear to instantiate different properties . A deeper problem lurks here , however . It seems that even the question of the ...
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... event of Mary's coming home and finding her easy chair . ( 6 ) Mary walked in the door . Peter was doing the washing up . She kissed him . and then sank into her easy chair . It had been a hard day . But the very same real world event ...
... event of Mary's coming home and finding her easy chair . ( 6 ) Mary walked in the door . Peter was doing the washing up . She kissed him . and then sank into her easy chair . It had been a hard day . But the very same real world event ...
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... event of the same kind . Thus an activity does not include the natural initial and final endpoints of the event ; it also has a modified subinterval property , on which , for instance , if an event e lasting from 10 to 11 is a running event ...
... event of the same kind . Thus an activity does not include the natural initial and final endpoints of the event ; it also has a modified subinterval property , on which , for instance , if an event e lasting from 10 to 11 is a running event ...
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... event and suppose it contains an occurrence of a predicate . Now suppose is intensionally equivalent with y . Many like Davidson and Lemmon have persuasively argued against others like Chisholm that S [ / ] 17 denotes the same event as ...
... event and suppose it contains an occurrence of a predicate . Now suppose is intensionally equivalent with y . Many like Davidson and Lemmon have persuasively argued against others like Chisholm that S [ / ] 17 denotes the same event as ...
Зміст
2 | 217 |
ANAPHORA AND ABSTRACT ENTITIES | 225 |
3 | 235 |
5 | 242 |
2 | 251 |
Discourse Structure and Discourse Representation Theory | 262 |
Principles of Discourse Segmentation and SDRS Constituent | 269 |
3 | 275 |
6 | 79 |
Formalization of DRS Construction and DRS Interpretation | 95 |
ATTITUDES AND ATTITUDE DESCRIPTIONS | 111 |
Interpreting Attitude Ascriptions | 118 |
Attitudes Propositions and Representations | 128 |
Conclusions | 135 |
Syntactic and Semantic Assumptions and Basic Principles | 141 |
Derived Nominals | 149 |
Ofing Gerund Phrases and Bare Nominals | 163 |
That Clauses | 171 |
Infinitivals and Projective Propositions | 180 |
PROBLEMS FOR THE SEMANTICS OF NOMINALS | 190 |
Naked Infinitives | 204 |
1 | 299 |
CHAPTER 8 | 308 |
2 | 330 |
3 | 338 |
5 | 345 |
APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY OF DISCOURSE | 354 |
Concluding Thoughts on Abstract Entity Anaphora | 381 |
ITS PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS | 387 |
4 | 397 |
2 | 424 |
CONCLUSION | 434 |
73 | 451 |
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abstract entity anaphora abstract objects agent analysis anaphora resolution anaphoric reference antecedent argument place argument structure Asher belief chapter characterization clauses cognitive complement complex concept discourse referent constituent revision constraint context defined definition delineated DRS denote derived nominals discourse particles discourse referent introduced discourse relations discourse structure domain DR-theoretic structures DRS construction procedure embedding functions embedding tree event discourse referent event-type examples external anchor fact factive Fred gerund phrases infinitivals instance intentional frame interpretation IP gerunds John's K₁ K₂ lexically logical Mary matrix condition maximal model theory natural language metaphysics negation node noun phrases null determiner of-ing gerund open constituent partial DRS plural POSS-ing gerunds possible predicative DRS predicative DRSS principles projective propositions pronoun proper embedding quantifier scope SDRS SDRSS semantic semantic translation sentence sentential nominals subDRS theory topic translation tree isomorphism truth conditions updating VP ellipsis well-foundedness yields