Prosodic Constraints on Dynamic Grammatical Analysis

11 Summary Limitations of time and space prevent the detailed examination of how well these rules treat the various empirical cases mentioned earlier, as well as the wider class of examples to be found in the literature on prosodic phrasing. Regardless of how well these particular hypotheses fare in this empirical proving ground, I would like to emphasize that the general perspective in which these rules have been framed seems to oer an interesting way of looking at intonational phrasing. This general perspective views intonational phrasing as a grammatical mechanism by which proof unfolding can be directed. In particular, postulating intonated grammatical types in analogy to logical operators oers the possibility of formulating inference rules which constrain access to phrase-internal properties in specic ways. When this general perspective is tied to dynamic approaches to interpretation, it has the consequence that intonational phrasing decisions can govern syntactic and interpretive composition in a ne-grained way, according to whether phrase-internal information is passed to categorial type calculus (which we have assumed here is an extension of an applicative type system) or to a system of rules involving the dynamics of changing discourse information (which seems to be organized along non-applicative principles).