Matthias Irmer

Bridging Inferences: Constraining and Resolving Underspecification in Discourse Interpretation (Language, Context and Cognition) Matthias Irmer

This book develops a formalization that permits the integration of indirect anaphoric relationships in the construction of a structured discourse representation. From a broader perspective, it provides a suitable dynamic-logic framework that contextually constrains and inferentially resolves underspecification in cohesion and coherence of discourses. In addition, the book provides a synopsis of the problems, methods, approaches, and desiderata of research on text, context, and discourse interpretation.