A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts

Authors:
Daniel Lyons;Graeme Hirst
Affiliations:
MCC, Austin, TX;University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Venue:
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1990

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Abstract

A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts---words such as only, even, and also---is developed from Rooth's theory of association with focus. By adapting the theory so that it can be expressed in terms of a frame-based semantic formalism, a semantics that is more computationally practical is arrived at. This semantics captures pragmatic subtleties by incorporating a two-part representation, and recognizes the contribution of intonation to meaning.