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Conceptualisation and Coherence in the Linguistic Realisation of Dynamic Episodes

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project funded by the German Research Community (DFG), March 2007 - December 2008 and March - July 2010

Project description:

The main goal of this project is to model the processes of discourse production starting with a knowledge base down to the linguistic form of utterances, using the insights of psycholinguistic research in this area. The model will be based on the algorithms of formal dynamic semantics in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). The special focus of this project is on the cross-linguistic differences (primarily, English vs. German) in narrative planning including event selection, linearisation and perspective taking. The typical English and German narrative solutions should by algorithmically derived from the discourse representation structure that encodes a limited knowledge domain (the content of a film), and compared to real narratives from a multilingual corpus of film retellings. We formulate detailed hypotheses about the form of the conceptual representation that serves as the starting point of the production process, as well as about the principles of discourse planning. Thus the project brings together the methods of psycholinguistics and formal dynamic semantics.

Extract from the project proposal [PDF]

Final report [Coming soon]

The DRT knowledge base for the "paper scene" of the film Quest [PDF]

Publications:

Jasinskaja (ms). The Global Aboutness Topic in German Narrative. Ms. Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [Draft (PDF)]

Jasinskaja & Roßdeutscher (submitted). Through Narrative Planning Towards the Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. Ms. University of Stuttgart. [Draft (PDF)]

von Stutterheim, C., Halm, U., and Carroll, M. (to appear). Macrostructural principles and the development of narrative competence in L1-German: The role of grammar (8-14 year olds). In Benazzo, S., Hickmann, M., and Watorek, M. (eds.), Comparative perspectives to language acquisition: A tribute to Clive Perdue. Multilingual Matters.

Jasinskaja (to appear). Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast. To appear in Atle Grønn & Irena Marijanovic (eds.) Oslo Studies in Language. [Final draft (PDF)]

Jasinskaja & Zeevat (2009). Explaining Conjunction Systems: Russian, English, German. In Riester, A. & Solstad, T. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13: 231-245. Stuttgart, Germany. [Paper (PDF)]

Jasinskaja & Zeevat (2008). Explaining Additive, Adversative and Contrast Marking in Russian and English. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, 24: 65-91 [Draft (PDF)]

Jasinskaja & Roßdeutscher (2008). Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. In Benz, A., Kühnlein, P. & Stede, M. (eds.) Constraints in Discourse 3. Proceedings of the Workshop: 45-52. University of Potsdam, Germany. [Paper (PDF)]

Activities:

Jasinskaja, K.: Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast. Talk at the Workshop on Russian in Contrast. September 17-19, 2009. Oslo University. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K.: Marking Correction. Talk at the workshop Satzverknüpfung und Textstruktur - zu Ehren von Ewald Lang aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung. July 17-18, 2009. ZAS, Berlin. Invited talk.

Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.: Contrast in Russian and English. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 13. September September 30-October 2, 2008. University of Stuttgart. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K.: Inventing discourse relations to cope with understanding error and grounding failure. Talk at the 1st North-American Workshop on Pragmatics. October 3-5, 2008. York University. Toronto, Canada. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K.: Additive and Adversative Marking as Topic Management: the English and, but vs. the Russian i, a, no. Talk at the Workshop on Experimental and Formal Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs. European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information, ESSLLI-2008. Hamburg University. August 4-15, 2008. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.: Rhetorical Relations. Introductory Course at the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information, ESSLLI-2008. Hamburg University. August 4-15, 2008.

Jasinskaja, K. & Roßdeutscher, A.: Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. Talk at the Workshop Constraints in Discourse 3. July 30-August 1, 2008. University of Potsdam. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K.: Doing Discourse Relations by Topics and Implicatures. Talk at the Semantics Colloquium. University of Nijmegen. May 6, 2008. Invited talk.

Jasinskaja, K.: Temporal Non-Sequentiality in Contrastive Sentences. Talk at the 9th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics. February 20-24, 2008. Szklarska Poreba, Poland. Reviewed talk.

Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.: Information Structure and the Usage of Discourse Connectives: The Russian i ‘and, so’ vs. a ‘and, but’. Talk at the 2nd Workshop on OT and Interpretation. February 8, 2008. ZAS, Berlin.

Jasinskaja, K.: Member of the programme committee for Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (Stuttgart, 2008) and 15 (Saarbrücken, 2010).

Jasinskaja, K.: Co-organiser and member of the programme committee of the workshop Implicatures and Discourse Structure (AG4) to be held as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS, Göttingen, 2011).