Information Structure and the Accessibility of Clausally Introduced Referents

Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja

doi:10.1515/thli.2001.27.2-3.163

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“…1b). The data suggests that reference to other types (referred to in the literature as coercion) is possible only in accordance with an abstractness hierarchy (Consten and Knees 2005;Consten et al 2007;Hegarty et al 2001). The hierarchy starts with events being defined as the most concrete type, which are anchored in spatial-temporal dimensions, and ends with propositions as the most abstract types, as illustrated in Fig.…”

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“…Corpus-based studies have shown that abstract objects are less salient than other discourse referents, which effects the choice of the anaphoric element (Hegarty et al 2001). Whereas, in English, anaphors referring to abstract entities are predominantly realized by demonstrative pronouns (Gundel et al 2004;Webber 1988), the situation is different for other languages, e.g., Spanish and Catalan (Recasens 2008a), or Danish and Italian (Navarretta and Olsen 2008).…”

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“…1 (Asher 1993). The Abstractness Hypothesis states that anaphoric reference is possible to antecedents that are of the same type as the anaphor, or are of a less abstract type than the anaphor (Consten and Knees 2005;Hegarty et al 2001).…”

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“…We follow Consten and Knees (2005) and Hegarty et al (2001) in assuming that the semantic type of the antecedent and anaphor are relevant for the resolution process.…”

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Annotating abstract anaphora

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2011

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In this paper, we present first results from annotating abstract (discourse-deictic) anaphora in German. Our annotation guidelines provide linguistic tests for identifying the antecedent, and for determining the semantic types of both the antecedent and the anaphor. The corpus consists of selected speaker turns from the Europarl corpus. To date, 100 texts have been annotated according to these guidelines. The annotations show that anaphoric personal and demonstrative pronouns differ with respect to the distance to their antecedents. A semantic analysis reveals that, contrary to suggestions put forward in the literature, referents of anaphors do not tend to be more abstract than the referents of their antecedents.Keywords Abstract anaphora Á Abstract entities Á Coreference annotation Á Semantic annotation 1 Introduction

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“…We follow Consten and Knees (2005) and Hegarty et al (2001) in assuming that the semantic type of the antecedent and anaphor are relevant for the resolution process.…”

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Annotating abstract anaphora

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2011

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“…These uses, long and widely recognized, have been characterized as anaphoric or discourse anaphoric/deictic by different authors (see, inter alia, Asher 1993;Diessel 1999;Janssen 1996;Gundel et al 2001Gundel et al , 2003Hegarty et al 2001. ) As demonstrative anaphors, demonstratives are coreferential with a range of textual elements.…”

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Temporal constraints in the use of demonstratives in Iberian Spanish

Hernández

2012

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ABSTRACT. Natural linguistic data show that a close relationship exists among demonstratives and time in Spanish. Such connection appears to be of a pragmatic nature whereby linguistic expressions that encode or denote time license the use of demonstratives under certain conditions. Generally speaking, these linguistic expressions or licensors contribute to setting up adequate temporal frames of reference for a felicitous use of demonstratives. Although grammatical tense appears to be the principal type of licensing expression other linguistic elements (i.e. adverbials, noun phrases, etc.) also play an important role in establishing the reference time of the discourse. The aforementioned connection time-demonstration occurs when speakers employ demonstratives to refer to objects within the textual world (i.e. discourse referents). In this paper I explore the temporal constraints that impose restrictions in the use of demonstratives in Spanish and argue in favor of characterizing the relationship timedemonstration as a discourse deixis phenomenon in close connection with time deixis. The co-referential link that gets established between the demonstrative and the temporal expression is formalized and a presuppositional characterization is proposed for the three demonstratives in their discourse-deictic use.Keywords. Time, demonstratives, text, anaphora, reference, deixis, discourse RESUMEN. El análisis de datos lingüísticos naturales muestra que existe una estrecha correlación entre los demostrativos y el tiempo en español. En dicha conexión, de naturaleza aparentemente pragmática, las expresiones que denotan tiempo facilitan el uso de demostrativos bajo ciertas condiciones. En general, estas expresiones lingüísticas contribuyen a establecer el marco de referencia temporal adecuado para el uso del demostrativo. Aunque el tiempo verbal parece ser el tipo principal de elementos que facilitan el uso del demostrativo, los adverbios y ciertas expresiones nominales también contribuyen a establecer la referencia temporal del discurso. La conexión tiempo-demostrativo tiene lugar cuando el hablante emplea el demostrativo para referir a referentes del discurso. En este trabajo se exploran las restricciones temporales que afectan al uso de los demostrativos en español y se propone una caracterización para la conexión tiempo-demostrativos como un fenómeno de deixis discursiva en estrecha relación con la deixis temporal. Se formaliza el vínculo correferencial que se establece entre el demostrativo y la expresión temporal en contextos narrativos y se propone una caracterización presuposicional de los demostrativos en su uso deíctico discursivo.Palabras clave. Tiempo, demostrativos, texto, anáfora, referencia, deixis, discurso * I would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this paper.

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A Study to Improve the Efficiency of a Discourse Parsing System

Abeysinghe

2003

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

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Information Structure and the Accessibility of Clausally Introduced Referents

Cited by 20 publications

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Annotating abstract anaphora

Annotating abstract anaphora

Temporal constraints in the use of demonstratives in Iberian Spanish

A Study to Improve the Efficiency of a Discourse Parsing System

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