A semantic account of adverbials as discourse connectives

Authors:
Kate Forbes;Bonnie Webber
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Venue:
SIGDIAL '02 Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 2
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We address the question of why certain adverb and preposition phrases are only interpretable with respect to the discourse, and not just their own matrix clause. We show that, in many cases, an adverbial's compositional semantics explains why. We close by reporting on an annotation study aimed at providing specific evidence for how adverbials are interpreted with respect to the discourse.