From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation TheoryPreface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach towards natural language semantics which, some thirteen years ago, arose out of attempts to deal with two distinct problems. The first of those was the semantic puzzle that had been brought to contempo rary attention by Geach's notorious "donkey sentences" - sentences like If Pedro owns some donkey, he beats it, in which the anaphoric connection we perceive between the indefinite noun phrase some donkey and the pronoun it may seem to conflict with the existential meaning of the word some. The second problem had to do with tense and aspect. Some languages, for instance French and the other Romance languages, have two morphologically distinct past tenses, a simple past (the French Passe Simple) and a continuous past (the French Imparfait). To articulate precisely what the difference between these tenses is has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. |
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DRT and Predicate Logic | 133 |
PART 2 | 304 |
The Plural | 305 |
NPs that Denote Collections | 332 |
Models | 397 |
Reciprocals | 463 |
Tense and Aspect | 474 |
Inadequacies of TPL and Similar Systems | 491 |
Instants Intervals Events and States | 500 |
DRSConstruction Rules for Temporal Reference I | 541 |
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adverbs analysis anaphoric Anna Karenina antecedent applied argument Bill Buddenbrooks Case+nom Chapter Conk constituent constraint construction algorithm construction rule contains context defined definition denoted discourse referent disjunction donkey DRS-condition DRS-construction DRSS duplex condition embedding English event explicit expressions fact feature formula Fred function grammatical implicative condition indefinite descriptions individual instance interpretation introduced intuitively Jones Jones(x K₁ lexical insertion rules linguistic loves M₁ Mary Mary(x meaning model theory natural language negation node noun phrase NP VP occurs pair particular phrase structure rules plur plural NPs Porsche possible precisely predicate logic PredM problem processing pronoun proper names quantifier reading relation relative clause representation represented Section semantics semilattice sing stockbroker subordinate Sunday syntactic structure syntax temporal theory TPpt transitive verb translation triggering configuration true truth conditions Ulysses utterance values verb phrase verifies