Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content

Authors

  • Julie Hunter GLiF, Univsitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
  • Nicholas Asher IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v26i0.3946

Abstract

While not-at-issue (NAI) content is typically introduced via particular syntactic constructions, accounts of NAI content that only consider the syntax/semantics interface face empirical difficulties. We develop a new approach to NAI content that exploits features of discourse structure to solve these difficulties, and we provide some insight on the strategic uses of NAI constructions.

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Published

2016-12-14

Issue

Proceedings of SALT 26

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Articles

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Articles appearing in SALT are published under an author agreement with the Linguistic Society of America and are made available to readers under a Creative Commons Attribution License.