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FAT CHILD MEETS DRT. A SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION FOR THE OPENING LINES OF KASCHNITZ’ “DAS DICKE KIND”

This case study investigates the contribution of lexical semantics to the construction and evaluation of semantic representations of texts. Its primary focus is on the resolution of one definite description. Both this resolution and the construction of the context within which it must be carried out make substantial use of lexical entries for certain verbs, which reveal, in a logical transparent way, the internal structure of the events or states these verbs describe. Surprisingly both the construction of the context and the resolution itself rely only on the entries and on certain discourse coherence principles (but do not require extralinguistic knowledge).

ANTJE ROSSDEUTSCHER

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