On D-Trees, Beans, And B-Accents

被引：17

作者：

Daniel Büring

机构：

[1] UCLA,Department of Linguistics

来源：

Linguistics and Philosophy | 2003年 / 26卷 / 5期

关键词：

Artificial Intelligence; Information Structure; Computational Linguistic; Discourse Structure; Broad Picture;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1025887707652

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摘要：

This paper presents a comprehensive pragmatic theory ofcontrastive topic and its relation to focus in English.In discussing various constructions involving contrastive topics,it argues that they make reference to complex, hierarchicalaspects of discourse structure. In this, it follows and spellsout a proposal sketched in Roberts (1996, p. 121ff),using the formal tools found in Büring (1994,1997b). It improves on existing accounts in the accuracy with which it predicts the non-occurrence of the accent patterns associated with focus and contrastive topic, and locates the analysis of contrastive topicswithin a broader picture of discourse and information structure.

引用

页码：511 / 545

页数：34

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