TY - JOUR
T1 - A simplified theory of tense representations and constraints on their composition
AU - Brent, Michael R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - This paper proposes a set of representations for tenses and a set of constraints on how they can be combined in adjunct clauses. The semantics we propose explains the possible meanings of tenses in a variety of sentential contexts. It also supports an elegant constraint on tense combination in adjunct clauses. These semantic representations provide insights into the interpretations of tenses, and the constraints provide a source of syntactic disambiguation that has not previously been demonstrated. We demonstrate an implemented disambiguator for a certain class of three-clause sentences based on our theory.
AB - This paper proposes a set of representations for tenses and a set of constraints on how they can be combined in adjunct clauses. The semantics we propose explains the possible meanings of tenses in a variety of sentential contexts. It also supports an elegant constraint on tense combination in adjunct clauses. These semantic representations provide insights into the interpretations of tenses, and the constraints provide a source of syntactic disambiguation that has not previously been demonstrated. We demonstrate an implemented disambiguator for a certain class of three-clause sentences based on our theory.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85029766244
SN - 0736-587X
VL - 1990-June
SP - 119
EP - 126
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
T2 - 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1990
Y2 - 6 June 1990 through 9 June 1990
ER -