WHAT DO REFERENTIAL INDICES REFER TO,
Abstract
An examination is made of the proposal that in the deep structure, noun phrases are associated with a referential index. The purpose of this proposal was not so much to account for the meaning of sentences but to augment the notion of noun phrase identity which was needed for the structural description of certain deletion transformations. This paper attempts to study how and if such markers could be used in semantics. The outcome of that kind of study will ultimately decide what the future of indices will be. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0670502
Entities
People
- Lauri Karttunen
Organizations
- RAND Corporation