Focus and discourse representation theory

The thesis puts forward a psychologically plausible and computationally explicit theory of pronoun resolution, concentrating on semantic and focusing effects and their interaction. Hans Kamp's (1981) Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) was the first of a series of recent formal semantic theor...

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Main Author: Cormack, Sophia Harriet
Published: University of Edinburgh 1993
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.644995