scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1140577

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Authors Nicholas M. Asher

Publication date 19 October 1998

zbMATH Keywords

discourse relationsdiscourse representationlocational anaphorasemantico-pragmatic analysis of complex anaphoratenses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic of natural languages (03B65)

Review text

A semantico-pragmatic analysis of complex anaphora. The problem is one of the problems concerning analysis of a text; here a (pragmatic) modification of semantics is used, where meanings are functions from the set of pairs (possible world, context) to another such set. The correspondence between temporal/spatial locations and sequences of sentences is studied; the relevant concept is that of ``discourse relations (here: Narration, Elaboration, Explanation). Axioms, examples. The reviewer misses two most interesting and relevant articles in the bibliography, both by \textit{Pavel Tichý}: ``The logic of temporal discourse [Linguist. Philos. 3, 343-369 (1980; Zbl 0433.03005)], ``The semantics of episodic verbs [Theor. Linguist. 7, 263-296 (1980)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0885.00030].

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