The Interpretation and Representation of Coreferential Lexical NPs in Expository Texts  

Oleh:

Maes, Alfons A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 7 no. 2 (Feb. 1990), page 143-174.
Topik: Coreferential Lexical NPs; Expository Texts;
Fulltext: vol 7, no 1, p 143-174.pdf (1.63MB)

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The central topic of this article is the relationship between coreferential, non-identical, lexical NPs in texts (so-called NPj-NPj'-pairs). The main question in this article is which interpretation and representation must be attributed to the relationship between NPS and NP[ if they are to justify the (referential, cohesive and informative) functions and the adequacy of NP[ in texts. The answer has been given in terms of text relations and text intentions. It has been argued that the adequacy of NPj-NPj'-pairs cannot simply be made dependent upon either the status of the entities involved in the reader's knowledge store, or the surface characteristics of sentences or texts, such as the distance or the structural relation between NP; and NP[. Rather, the adequacy is dependent on the question whether NPrNPj'-pairs are adequate actualizations of implicit text relations which, in turn, have to be adequate specifications of the intentions underlying the text. Such a treatment enables us to construct a representation for NPj-NP;'- pairs in which the different functions of NP[s are incorporated.

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