Conceptualisation and linguistic form when producing event sequences

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Christiane von Stutterheim
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2003 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5401115

• Final Report Year: 2011

Final Report Abstract

In this project, some central aspects of narrative generation from a knowledge base through a hierarchically organised set of rules reflecting both language-independent and language-specific narrative planning principles were reconstructed in the formal framework of Discourse Representation Theory. Moreover, a formal explanation of the influence of grammar on global narrative planning decisions has been developed using a combination of DRT and Optimality Theory. Additional empirical support for the emerging model has been found in the study on the acquisition of narrative skills by German children and teenagers between the ages of 7 and 14. These results make an original contribution to the general theory of discourse structure and generation.

Publications

• (2008). Explaining additive, adversative and contrast marking in Russian and English. Revue de Semantique et Pragmatique, 24:65-91
  Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.
  
• (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
  Jasinskaja, K. & Roßdeutscher, A.
  
• Additive and Adversative Marking as Topic Management: the English and, but vs. the Russian i, a, no. 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
  Jasinskaja, K.
  
• Contrast in Russian and English. Sinn und Bedeutung 13. September 30-October 2, 2008. University of Stuttgart
  Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.
  
• Doing Discourse Relations by Topics and Implicatures. Semantics Colloquium. May 6, 2008. University of Nijmegen
  Jasinskaja, K.
  
• Information Structure and the Usage of Discourse Connectives: The Russian i and, so vs. a and, but. 2nd Workshop on OT and Interpretation. February 8, 2008. ZAS, Berlin
  Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.
  
• Inventing discourse relations to cope with understanding error and grounding failure. 1st North-American Workshop on Pragmatics. October 3-5, 2008. York University. Toronto, Canada
  Jasinskaja, K.
  
• Rhetorical Relations. European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information, ESSLLI- 2008. Hamburg University. August 4-15, 2008
  Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.
  
• Temporal Non-Sequentiality in Contrastive Sentences. 9th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Rools of Pragmasemantics. February 20-24, 2008. Szklarska Poreba, Poland
  Jasinskaja, K.
  
• Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach. Workshop Constraints in Discourse 3. July 30-August 1, 2008. University of Potsdam
  Jasinskaja, K. & Roßdeutscher, A.
  
• (2009). Explaining conjunction systems: Russian, English, German. In: Riester, A. & Solstad, T. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (231-245). SinSpeC, Working Papers of the SFB 732, University of Stuttgart
  Jasinskaja, K. & Zeevat, H.
  
• Corrective Contrast in Russian, in Contrast. Workshop on Russian in Contrast. September 17-19, 2009. Oslo University
  Jasinskaja, K.
  
• Marking Correction. Satzverknüpfung und Textstruktur: zu Ehren von Ewald Lang aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung. July 17-18, 2009. ZAS, Berlin
  Jasinskaja, K.