A Constraint-Based Grammar of English Temporal Connectives

Abstract

: This document describes a set of feature structure representations for English temporal connectives. Their lexical entries are described and motivated in detail, along with a type hierarchy that will be used in the computational HPSG/DRT system we are building to parse texts containing these temporal connectives. This work is based on the TTT proposal for Dutch temporal connectives described in [ Oversteegen, 1989, Oversteegen, 1993 ] and on Martin's [ 1992 ] system representing the ideational (external) meaning of temporal relations in English. EP6665: DANDELION For internal use only Deliverable R2.3.3 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Martin's system of temporal connectives 2 3 How the information from the text is used 4 3.1 Modifying Martin's system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 Incorporating Oversteegen's approach 7 5 A representation of the English temporal connectives 13 5.1 When . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...