Constraints in Discourse 3 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Levels of analysis: Coreference and coherence relations -- 2. Annotation -- 3. About the papers -- 3.1 Berry Claus: Narrative texts: Melting frozen time? -- 3.2 Katja Jasinskaja and Antje Roßdeutscher: Through narrative planning towards the preverbal message: A DRT-based approach -- 3.3 Matthias Irmer: Bridges between events. Frame semantics and indirect anaphora -- 3.4 Jacques Jayez and Mathilde Dargnat: The semantics of French Continuative Rises in SDRT -- 3.5 Ildiko Berzlanovich, Markus Egg and Gisela Redeker: Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts -- 3.6 Manfred Stede and Kristin Irsig: Complex connectives in German: Complications from local coherence analysis -- 3.7 Deniz Zeyrek, Ümit Deniz Turan, Işin Demirşahin and Ruket Çakıcı: Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish: A corpus-based analysis of Fakat, Ayrıca, Yoksa -- 3.8 Rudy Loock: Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in English: An information-packaging approach -- References -- Processing narrative texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representing the temporal structure of a described event sequence -- 3. Narrative time shifts -- 4. Does the size of a narrative time-shift matter? Two experiments -- 4.1 Experiment 1 -- 4.1.1 Method -- 4.1.2 Results and discussion -- 4.2 Experiment 2 -- 4.2.1 Method -- 4.2.2 Results and discussion -- 4.3 General discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Through narrative planning towards the preverbal message -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Knowledge representation -- 4. Strategies in narrative planning -- 4.1 General remarks -- 4.2 Event selection -- 4.3 Foregrounding and backgrounding.

4.4 Subject selection -- 4.5 Predicate selection -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Bridges between events -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bridging anaphora -- 2.1 Classification and corpus studies -- 2.2 Bridging in SDRT -- 3. Marrying SDRT with FrameNet -- 3.1 Frame semantics and FrameNet -- 3.2 Representing frame elements in SDRT -- 4. Constraints on bridging inferences -- 4.1 The preference for coreference -- 4.2 Plausibility and consistency -- 4.3 The Right Frontier Constraint -- 4.4 Maximize discourse coherence -- 4.5 Summary: Bridging constraints -- 5. Related approaches -- 5.1 Implicit arguments as A-definites (Koenig & Mauner 1999) -- 5.2 FrameNet and DRT (Bos & Nissim 2008) -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Continuative rises in French -- 3. Do discourse CRs exist? -- 3.1 Raw results -- 3.2 A Mixed model analysis -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4. Analysis of discourse CRs in SDRT -- 4.1 Basics -- 4.2 Integrating discourse CRs -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse organization -- 2.1 Genre -- 2.2 Coherence and cohesion -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Corpus -- 3.2 Genre structure -- 3.3 Coherence analysis -- 3.4 Cohesion analysis -- 3.5 Centrality -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Genre and coherence -- 4.2 Genre and cohesion -- 4.3 Alignment of coherence and cohesion -- 5. Conclusions and outlook -- 5.1 Conclusions -- 5.2 Current and future work -- References -- Complex connectives in German -- 1. Introduction: Local coherence analysis -- 2. German complex connectives: Toward a classi cation -- 2.1 Connective parts within a clause -- 2.2 Connective parts across clauses -- 3. Treatment in a Lexicon of Connectives -- 3.1 General layout -- 3.2 Treatment of the Complex Connectives.

4. The procedure of local coherence analysis -- 5. Summary -- References -- Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What are structural connectives and discourse adverbials and what do they link? -- 1.2 Connectives in Turkish -- 1.3 The choice of fakat, yoksa and ayrıca for analysis -- 2. D-LTAG -- 3. The data -- 3.1 Annotation principles in the TDB -- 3.2 Reliability Analysis -- 3.3 Fakat, yoksa, and ayrıca: Where are they positioned in the clause and what do they link? -- 4. A quantitative analysis of the three connectives -- 4.1 Adjacency of arguments -- 4.2 Span of arguments -- 4.3 Position of the connective in Arg2 -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Fakat -- 5.2 Yoksa -- 5.3 Ayrıca -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix -- Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in english -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic constraints -- 3. Stylistic constraints and register variation -- 4. Semantico-pragmatic constraints -- 4.1 Information statuses of the elements -- 4.1.1 Foreground vs. background information -- 4.1.2 The degree of familiarity -- 4.1.3 Exceptions to the familiarity degree constraint -- 4.1.4 The role of intonation -- 4.2 Temporariness vs. elaboration -- 4.3 The explicitness/implicitness of the relation between the information contents -- 4.4 Presence of a presupposed Open Proposition (OP) -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

The goal of this paper is to compare appositive relative clauses (henceforth ARCs) to other structures that convey the same information, in order to determine the morphosyntactic, semantic and above all pragmatic factors conditioning the choice of structure. Alternatives to ARCs examined here include sentential parentheticals, juxtaposed/coordinated independent clauses, adverbials or noun modifiers which, along with ARCs, can be considered competing allostructures representing the different possible syntactic realizations of the same informational, logico-semantic content. Setting register-related phenomena aside so that they do not interfere with the results, the paper investigates several parameters like the hierarchization of the informational contents (and discourse coherence as a whole), the (non) existence of an open proposition (as defined in Prince 1986), the influence of a familiarity constraint ('fame effect') among others as constraints accounting for the choice of structure. The identified constraints will be paralleled with the discourse functions of ARCs defined in previous research, justifying the suggested typology.

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