Temporal information and discourse relations in narratives: the role of French connectives puis and un peu plus tard

  • Authors:

  • Myriam Bras;Anne Le Draoulec;Laure Vieu

  • Affiliations:

  • IRIT Univ. Toulouse, route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex;ERSS CNRS, Allées Antonio-Machado, Toulouse Cedex;IRIT CNRS, route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex

  • Venue:
  • TASIP '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Temporal and spatial information processing - Volume 13
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper deals with the way temporal connectives affect Temporal Structure as well as Discourse Structure in Narratives. It presents a contrastive study of French connectives puis (then, afterwards) and un peu plus tard (a bit later) within the framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. It shows that puis is a marker of the Narration discourse relation, whereas un peu plus tard blocks Narration and licenses only a weaker discourse relation, that can be considered as a "weak Narration" involving only temporal succession. In addition, puis blocks Result, while un peu plus tard does not.