Discourse connectives can show sense ambiguities, in that they can signal more than one possible rhetorical relation. The aim of this study is discover how to disambiguate such discourse connectives using a statistical model. Six discourse connectives (after, as soon as, before, once, since and while) which show ambiguities in the sdrt (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher & Lascari...

Connectives are used as discourse markers by speakers of Mosuli Iraqi Arabic so that listeners will pay more attention during their utterances. The current study investigates the pragmatic functions connectives in Arabic, selected from seven comedy series presented Hassan Fashel. These contain commonly were investigated research. zee, kawee, dahiq, hasatta, and they assumed to have different co...

The logic of bunched implications (BI) of O’Hearn and Pym [5] is a substructural logic which freely combines additive connectives ⊃ , ∧, ∨ from propositional logic and multiplicative connectives −?, ? from linear logic. Because of its concise yet rich representation of states of resources, BI is regarded as a logic suitable for reasoning about resources. For example, by building a model for BI ...

If languages could lexicalize arbitrary truth tables as sentential connectives, we should be able to find a great variety of connectives in the world’s languages. However, very few connectives are typologically attested, as has long been known. For example, no known language lexicalizes if-and-only-if, not-and, or McCawley (1972)’s schmor, a connective that returns true exactly when two or more...