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Discourse relations

Year: 1999

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We show that discourse structure need not bear the full burden of conveying discourse relations by showing that many of them can be explained nonstructurally in terms of the grounding of anaphoric presuppositions (Van der Sandt, 1992). This simplifies discourse structure, while still allowing the realisation of a full range of discourse relations. This is achieved using the same semantic machinery used in deriving clause-level semantics.

DOI: 10.3115/1034678.1034695

Authors: Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi

Institutions: University of Edinburgh, University of Otago, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W2105720266

FWCI: 56.33

Cites: 24

Cited by: 56

Related to: 10