Centering in Dynamic Semantics

Authors:
Daniel Hardt
Affiliations:
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Venue:
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
1996

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Abstract

Centering theory posits a discourse center, a distinguished discourse entity that is the topic of a discourse. A simplified version of this theory is developed in a Dynamic Semantics framework. In the resulting system, the mechanism of center shift allows a simple, elegant analysis of a variety of phenomena involving sloppy identity in ellipsis and "paycheck pronouns".