A compositional and constraint-based approach to non-sentential utterances

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2003.21

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We present an approach to the interpretation of non-sentential utterances like B's utterance in the following mini-dialogue:

A: ˋˋWho came to the party?''
B: ˋˋPeter.´´

Such utterances pose several puzzles: they convey ˋsentence-type' messages (propositions, questions or request) while being of non-sentential form; and they are constrained both semantically and syntactically by the context. We address these puzzles in our approach which is compositional, since we provide a formal semantics for such fragments independent of their context, and constraint-based because resolution is based on collecting contextual constraints.

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2003-10-01

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Schlangen, David & Lascarides, Alex. 2003. A compositional and constraint-based approach to non-sentential utterances. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 380–390. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2003.21) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/575) (Accessed October 6, 2024.)