Creswell Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-87621-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways with little conscious effort and with effective communicative results. Previous computational models of when English speakers produce non-canonical word orders, like topicalization, left-dislocation and clefts, fail. The primary goal of this book is to present a better model of when speakers choose to produce certain non-canonical word orders by incorporating the effects of discourse context and speaker goals on syntactic choice. This book makes extensive use of previously unexamined naturally occurring corpus data of non-canonical word order in English, both to illustrate the points of the theoretical model and to train the statistical model.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Creswell, Cassandre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Tables
Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Background: Previous Work and Relevant Theory
Chapter 3: A Goal-Based Model of Syntactic Choice
Chapter 4: An Empirical Study of Discourse Structure and Non-Canonical Word
Order
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future Directions
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cassandre Creswell earned her B.A. in linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a M.S.E. in computer and information science and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.