Jon Oberlander

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1992–1993

Jon Oberlander wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1992–1993, most of them on Discourse analysis, Implicature; often with Alex Lascarides, Judy Delin.

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Papers

Intentions, Information, and Inference: Two Rhetorical Questions (1993)
A short position paper on discourse structure. Moore and Pollack argued that hearers can infer intentional relations from informational ones and back. Oberlander takes that inference model for granted and asks two questions that came up while modelling it in SDRT and DICE. First: when is an intentional relation not…
Aspect-Switching and Subordination: the Role of It-Clefts in Discourse (1992)
Prince (1978) observed that it-clefts often subordinate the clefted material, as background or as a cause, and mark it as "known fact" (the speaker is not responsible for it).
Preventing False Temporal Implicatures: Interactive Defaults for Text Generation (1992)
Readers infer temporal relations between clauses from their order, from causal knowledge and from discourse rules.