The role of inversion and PP-fronting in relating discourse elements: some implications for cognitive and computational models of natural language processing

Authors:
Mark Vincent LaPolla
Affiliations:
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Venue:
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Year:
1986

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Abstract

This paper will explore and discuss the less obvious ways syntactic structure is used to convey information and how this information could be used by a natural language database system as a heuristic to organize and search a discourse space.The primary concern of this paper will be to present a general theory of processing which capitalizes on the information provided by such non-SVO word orders as inversion, (wh) clefting and prepositional phrase (PP)fronting.