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Evidence for a Scalar Analysis of Result in SDRT from a Study of the French Temporal Connective alors

Myriam Bras
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Anne Le Draoulec
Nicholas Asher

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Introduction: This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the French temporal connective alors (generally translated in English by then, at that time, so). It is part of a broader project to provide a systematic analysis of French temporal connectives within Asher’s formal framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher 1993, Asher and Lascarides 2003). Among the linguistic markers that establish a temporal relation between the eventualities introduced by two clauses (henceforth discourse constituents) to be discourse linked, temporal connectives are distinguished by the fact that they introduce at the same time some sort of discourse relation. In previous work some of us showed that puis, which induces a temporal connection between constituents, is just such a connective; its role in SDRT is to impose a relation of Narration and to block causal relations like Result (cf. Bras et. al. 2001, Borillo et. al 2004). We argue here that alors can also be such a temporal connective under specific conditions. Much work has been done on alors (cf. inter alia Jayez 1981, 1988a&b; Franckel 1987; Gerecht 1987; Hybertie 1996; Reyle 1998; Gosselin in press). Most authors distinguish three major uses of alors in assertions: temporal uses (with or without a consequential value), merely consequential uses (close to donc ‘therefore’), and other uses where alors is a kind of « structuration » marker.
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Myriam Bras, Anne Le Draoulec, Nicholas Asher. Evidence for a Scalar Analysis of Result in SDRT from a Study of the French Temporal Connective alors. Explicit and implicit information in text. Information structure across languages (SPRIK Conference 2006), Jun 2006, Oslo, Norway. pp.75-79. ⟨hal-03690934⟩
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