Despite the attention the topic has received in recent years, there is still little agreement on how best to characterize what is at the core of engaging with narratives, irrespective of the medium— whether novels, films, plays, and so forth. Here, I look at a portion of contemporary philosophical debate, specifically, at Noël Carroll’s and Matthew Kieran’s criticisms of what we can call for co...

We are indebted to Professor C. R. Lowe for his guidance and encouragement during this study. We would also like to thank Mrs. G. Richards, Mrs. P. Mason, and Mrs. M. Pearson, who were the ward sisters concerned with the preadmission clinic. Mr. J. R. Salaman and Mr. L. H. Blurngart gave helpful advice in writing this paper. Mrs. Lynne Owen and Miss Christine Mead provided valuable secretarial ...

We are in the process of creating a pipeline for our HPSG grammar for Norwegian (NorSource). NorSource uses the meaning representation Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). We present a step for validating an MRS and a step for pre-processing an MRS. The pre-processing step connects our MRS elements to a domain ontology and it can create additional states and roles. The pipeline can be reused by o...