{"title":"French Adverbial Puis between Temporal Structure and Discourse Structure","authors":"Bras Myriam, A. L. Draoulec","doi":"10.1163/9780585474397_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9780585474397_008","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown in the literature that tense, aspect and world knowledge (also called common or shared knowledge) all play a role in determining the global temporal structure of a text as well as its discourse structure (Caenepeel and Moens, 1994; Kamp and Rohrer, 1983; Lascarides and Asher, 1993). In this paper we focus on the role of the French connective puis (then, afterwards) and its intersentential semantics. The objective is to give an account of the way this temporal connective interacts with discourse relations and thus bring a new contribution to the","PeriodicalId":149756,"journal":{"name":"Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132369144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘She’ ‘s Character","authors":"P. Dekker","doi":"10.1163/9780585474397_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9780585474397_004","url":null,"abstract":"When it comes to the interpretation of pronouns or variables, theories of interpretation generally adduce contexts in which these elements feel at home. When pronouns are, thus, accommodated conveniently, they pretty passively do what the contexts tell them to do, which is hardly anything. These elements nevertheless succeed in oiling the wheels of efficient linguistic information exchange. Upon closer inspection, it is hard to say what the meaning of pronouns precisely is. They turn out to have subtle indexical presuppositions but they easily go unnoticed because pronouns so eagerly require these to be satisfied whenever they are there. In this paper we try to uncover the character of pronouns and to identify their lexico-logical needs. We attempt a characterization of their indexical presuppositions in what we call an ‘intentional space’, a concept formulated within a many-sorted modal logic.","PeriodicalId":149756,"journal":{"name":"Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132479055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presupposition Triggered by Temporal Connectives","authors":"Frank Schilder","doi":"10.1163/9780585474397_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9780585474397_007","url":null,"abstract":"This paper 1 deals with presuppositional effects by the temporal discou rse markersafter and beforewithin a multi-sentence discourse. By presenting data wrt. implicitly expressed causal relations, the proposal by Lascarides and Oberlander (1993) i s crit cised and a formalisation of the discourse usage of the two temporal connectives is given by e xtending van der Sandt’s (1992) approach to presupposition within DRT.","PeriodicalId":149756,"journal":{"name":"Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120912296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}