An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory
Bilge Say, Varol Akman · Studies in functional and structural linguistics, SFSL · 1998
Punctuation has so far attracted attention within the linguistics community mostly from a syntactic perspective. In this paper, we give a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation, drawing our points from assorted, naturally-occurring sentences. We present our formal models of these sentences and the semantic contributions of punctuation marks. Our formalism is a simplified analogue of an extension—due to Nicholas Asher —of Discourse Representation Theory.