Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics: The Incremental Interpretation of Conversational Dialogues

Dialogues

作 者：于月[1];吴义诚[2]

YU Yue;WU Yicheng(不详)

作者机构：[1]School of Foreign Studies,University of Science and

Technology International 310058,China

出 版 物：外国语

年 卷 期：2019年 第3期

摘 要：Due to its intense interactivity and context-dependency,

conversation has posed considerable challenges for current context-free grammar frameworks which aim to characterize complete sentences.It is argued in this paper that by placing a high premium on contextuality, conversational utterances, complete

or

partial,

can

be

characterized

Beijing,Beijing

100083,China;[2]School

of

Studies,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou

straightforwardly.Within the framework of Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al.2001;Cann et al.2005), both semantic content and linguistic context are characterized dynamically and structurally in tandem, and, conversation is shown to be parsed progressively according to the lexical-input sequence along with a context-based update.The dynamic analysis proposed here not only provides a formal representation for the incremental interpretation of conversational utterances in

Mandarin, but captures the parallelism between conversation, ellipsis as well as anaphor, i.e., the context-dependent commonality, in terms of underspecification and update.

页 码：13-25页

主 题 词：split utterance;fragment;linguistic context;dynamic parsing