Discourse Tree Adjoining Grammar
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چکیده
It is generally agreed that discourse has a recursive structure and that this structure aaects the semantic interpretation of discourse. Despite this consensus however, few proposals give a precise specii-cation of how the syntax of discourse relates to its semantics. In this paper, I use a variant of Feature-Based Tree Adjoining Grammars to construct discourse structure and its associated semantics. I compare this approach with existing proposals and argue that it diiers from them in that it permits an incremental construction of discourse structure and its associated semantics which while remaining mono-tonic, adequately captures a range of semantic possibilities that are encountered in discourse.
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