Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons

Authors

  • Laurence Danlos Universite Paris Diderot, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
  • Katerina Rysova Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
  • Magdalena Rysova Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
  • Manfred Stede Universitat Potsdam, Applied Computational Linguistics Discourse Research Lab

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2018.102

Abstract

Starting from the perspective that discourse structure arises from the presence of coherence relations, we provide a map of linguistic discourse structuring devices (DRDs), and focus on those for written text. We propose to structure these items by differentiating between primary and secondary connectives on the one hand, and free connecting phrases on the other. For the former, we propose that their behavior can be described by lexicons, and we show one concrete proposal that by now has been applied to three languages, with others being added in ongoing work. The lexical representations can be useful both for humans (theoretical investigations, transfer to other languages) and for machines (automatic discourse parsing and generation).

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2018-06-08

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