Phrases as Carriers of Coherence Relations
Holger Schauer, Udo Hahn · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2000
Coherence relations have mainly been studied as a mechanism for the representation of text structure based on the analysis of clauses and larger text fragments.A closer look at textual data reveals, however, that adjuncts, typically cued by prepositions, also have a coherence establishing function.We discuss empirical evidence for this claim, and outline a framework that integrates the semantic interpretation and recognition of coherence relations covert in prepositional phrases.