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  • 标题:A Formal Analysis of the French Temporal Connective alors
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  • 作者:Myriam Bras ; Anne Le Draoulec ; Nicolas Asher
  • 期刊名称:Oslo Studies in Language
  • 印刷版ISSN:1890-9639
  • 出版年度:2009
  • 卷号:1
  • 期号:1
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:University of Oslo
  • 摘要:This paper presents an analysis of the French adverbial alors ( then, at that time, so ). Among the linguistic markers that establish a temporal relation between the eventualities introduced by two clauses, we define as \textit{temporal connectives} those that introduce at the same time some sort of discourse relation. We argue that alors can be such a connective. Within the framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory , our investigation concerning the discourse information conveyed by sentence initial alors reveals at least three sorts of relations close to the Result relation of SDRT. Alors alone conveys a weak causal relation, which we formalize using Lewis’ counterfactual, and encode in the discourse relation Weak-Result. We distinguish it from Strong-Result, which is inferred when lexical or other contextual information suggests a causal, discursive link. We also show that alors can, when Weak-Result is blocked, suggest an inferential relation, which we express using the weak conditional already present in SDRT.
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