A compositional and constraint-based approach to non-sentential utterances
- We present an approach to the interpretation of non-sentential utterances like B's utterance in the following mini-dialogue: A: "Who came to the party?" B: "Peter." Such utterances pose several puzzles: they convey 'sentence-type' messages (propositions, questions or request) while being of non-sentential form; and they are constrained both semantically and syntactically by the context. We address these puzzles in our approach which is compositional, since we provide a formal semantics for such fragments independent of their context, and constraint-based because resolution is based on collecting contextual constraints.
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| Author: | David SchlangenORCiDGND, Alex LascaridesORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-709446 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2003.21 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2003/10/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (10 : 2003 : East Lansing, Mich.) |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/29 |
| GND Keyword: | Satzellipse |
| Volume: | 10.2003 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 380 |
| Last Page: | 390 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
