How natural are conceptual anaphors?

Comprehending Conceptual Anaphors.

English pronouns must agree with their antecedents in number. But in some situations, pronouns violate this constraint, as in "I think I'll order a frozen margarita. I just love them." Three situations are identified in which such violations occur: (1) Plural (and technically illegal) pronouns are used to refer to frequently or multiply occurring items or events (as opposed to a unique item/eve...

How conceptual are semantic maps?

The question addressed in this paper is whether (and to what extent) a semantic map aimed at representing the multifunctionality of a given construction (or set of constructions) in discourse can be thought of as endowed with conceptual reality. To be considered as a mental representation that is essentially similar in all human brains, such a map should meet two requirements: (i) its nodes sho...

Anaphors, PPs and Disambiguation Process for Conceptual Analysis

During the conceptual analysis, the coexistence of several kinds of ambiguities tends to complicate the task of every kind of disambiguation module We tackle this problem here for two types of ambiguities anaphors and the PP attachment We show what kind of problems every conceptual analyser has to face We present, then, our solution to resolve these problems We study the efficiency of the propo...

anaphors ∗

Following Schlenker (1999); Percus & Sauerland (2003b); Anand (2006), we assume the following semantics for attitude relations A:1 • A(λGλx′λw′ . p)(x)(w) = 1⇔ ∃G∀〈w′, x′〉 ∈ Ax . p(G)(x′)(w′) = 1 • 〈x′, w′〉 ∈ Doxx ⇔ x′ is an individual compatible with who x takes herself to be in w, and w′ is a world compatible with what x believes in w. • G is a variable over concept generators of type 〈e, 〈κ,...

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