1998/07/14 by Daniel Hardt
Computer Science · #cmp-lg #cs.CL
published as Proceedings of COLING 96, Copenhagen, Denmark
arxiv created 1998/07/14 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Centering theory posits a discourse center, a distinguished discourse entity that is the topic of a discourse. A simplified version of this theory is developed in a Dynamic Semantics framework. In the resulting system, the mechanism of center shift allows a simple, elegant analysis of a variety of phenomena involving sloppy identity in ellipsis and ``paycheck pronouns''.