Speaking one's mind

  • Authors:

  • Alice G. B. ter Meulen

  • Affiliations:

  • Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT'03 Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Aspectual adverbs serve to create temporally coherent contexts. When prosodically marked by high pitch accents, they modify factual information while making direct reference to epistemic states of the agent regarding the actual or expected flow of events. Dynamic inferences background the agent's epistemic state, while adding new temporal information about events. In dialogue or multi agent settings this triangulation process serves to create common ground, to adjust plans after change in context and constrain the accommodation of presuppositions.