Discourse Structure and Sentential Information Structure.An Initial Proposal
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- 作者：Polanyi ; Livia ; van den Berg ; Martin ; Ahn ; David
- 关键词：discourse structure ; focus/background ; information structure ; Linguistic Discourse Model (LDM) ; prosody ; theme/rheme
- 刊名：Journal of Logic ; Language and Information
- 出版时间：2003
- 出版年：2003
- 期刊代码：83_09258531
- 类别：bio
- 卷：12
- 期：3
- 页码：337-350
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
In this article we argue that discourse structure constrains the set ofpossible constituents in a discourse that can provide the relevantcontext for structuring information in a target sentence, whileinformation structure critically constrains discourse structureambiguity. For the speaker, the discourse structure provides a set of possible contexts for continuation while information structure assignment is independent of discourse structure. For the hearer, the information structure of a sentence together with discourse structure instructs dynamic semantics how rhematic information should be used to update the meaning representation of the discourse (Polanyi and van den Berg, 1996).