Conventional approaches to ‘the syntax-semantics interface’ concentrate on matching static syntactic structures directly to semantic forms. This fails to account for the possibility that underspecified and/or procedural meaning may be grammatically encoded, creating observed truth-conditional interpretations only via inferential processes. Here I argue that the Hungarian ‘focus position’ provid...

In this paper, we describe a content planning mechanism which takes into consideration a user's possible inferences in order to generate the most concise discourse that achieves a given communicative goal. The consideration of a user's inferences results in the addition of information that addresses erroneous inferences , and the omission of easily inferred information. Given a communicative go...