Syntactic Choice from Speaker Intentions
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چکیده
Various pragmatic accounts of the functions of alternative syntactic constructions are available, in terms of presuppositions, information structure, or speaker intentions. Following a consideration of some of the various restrictions applying to the use of the alternative syntactic forms, the paper reviews some of these pragmatic accounts. It then proposes a characterisation of speaker intentions suuciently detailed to allow a mapping to syntactic forms. The type of model required to determine these intentions is discussed and seen to have implications for decision making at all levels of natural language generation, not only syntactic choice.
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