Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons | Zendy

Laurence Danlos | Zendy; Kateřina Rysová | Zendy; Magdaléna Rysová | Zendy; Manfred Stede | Zendy

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Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons

Author(s) -

Laurence Danlos,

Kateřina Rysová,

Magdaléna Rysová,

Manfred Stede

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

dialogue and discourse

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2152-9620

DOI - 10.5087/dad.2018.102

Subject(s) - parsing , computer science , focus (optics) , perspective (graphical) , natural language processing , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , structuring , artificial intelligence , linguistics , mathematics , physics , philosophy , statistics , finance , optics , economics

Starting from the perspective that discourse structure arises from the presence of coherence relations, we provide a map of linguistic discourse structuring devices (DRDs), and focus on those for written text. We propose to structure these items by differentiating between primary and secondary connectives on the one hand, and free connecting phrases on the other. For the former, we propose that their behavior can be described by lexicons, and we show one concrete proposal that by now has been applied to three languages, with others being added in ongoing work. The lexical representations can be useful both for humans (theoretical investigations, transfer to other languages) and for machines (automatic discourse parsing and generation).

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