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Information structure as parallel tree building

Author(s) -

Jon Stevens

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1535-1793

DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2011.21

Subject(s) - computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , pragmatics , tree (set theory) , semantic interpretation , set (abstract data type) , natural language processing , grammar , simplicity , artificial intelligence , semantics (computer science) , theoretical computer science , linguistics , mathematics , programming language , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology

This paper presents a Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar (STAG) account of Information Structure,whereby Givenness-marking requires a link between nodes on a syntactic tree and LF nodes whoseinterpretation is supplied by a contextually determined set of Given semantic objects. Byhypothesis, the interpretation of linked nodes bypasses a default interpretation principle thatrequires pragmatic reasoning to disambiguate elements and enrich semantic material. Thus,interpreting Given elements requires less cognitive effort than Focused elements. This, combinedwith some established insights from Game-theoretic pragmatics, yields empirical advantages overmore traditional semantic/pragmatic analyses of equal simplicity.

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