NoworThen? The Clitic -rruin Panyjima: Temporal Properties in Discourse
Autor: | Patrick Caudal, Alan Dench, Marie-Eve Ritz |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Linguistics and Language
Discourse representation theory Computer science business.industry Present tense Context (language use) State of affairs Adverb computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Presupposition Linguistics Negation Clitic Artificial intelligence business computer Natural language processing |
Zdroj: | Australian Journal of Linguistics. 32:41-72 |
ISSN: | 1469-2996 0726-8602 |
DOI: | 10.1080/07268602.2012.657753 |
Popis: | The clitic -rru in Panyjima, glossed as ‘now’ by Dench, appears not only in present tense but also in past and future clauses. This paper analyses the uses of this clitic and its interactions with tenses at clause level, as well as its role in the wider discourse context. We argue that -rru has temporal and contrastive properties, more specifically that -rru modifies the time of the eventuality denoted and signals a change: it introduces a contrast with an earlier state of affairs corresponding to the negation of the eventuality denoted. Thus temporal progression is also inferred. We propose to represent this contrast as a presupposition that -rru introduces, using Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). We also show that in discourse, -rru is used to introduce new subtopics, thus expressing contrasts at this wider level as well. Discourse relations and their temporal inferences are analysed using Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). We conclude that, while -rru often corresponds to the adverb... |
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