@conference{Gargett.Gregoromichelaki.Howes.Sato_SemDial_2008,
author = "Andrew Gargett and Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Christine Howes and Yo Sato",
abstract = "In this paper, we argue, contra a prevailing trend to classify elliptical structures in terms of sub-types specific to conversational dialogue, that despite their diversity of usage in conversational dialogue, such fragments are analysable in terms of structure-building mechanisms that have motivation elsewhere in the grammar (the framework adopted is Dynamic Syntax, Kempson et al. (2001); Cann et al. (2005)). The fragment types modelled include re-formulations, clarification requests, extensions, corrections and acknowledgements. We go on to argue that the incremental use of such ellipses serves a specific role in dialogue, namely a means of incrementally narrowing down the range of otherwise mushrooming alternative structural and interpretative analyses, a problem known to constitute a major challenge to any parsing system. We conclude that with grammar seen as a set of parse procedures, we have a basis for an integrated characterisation of dialogue phenomena while nonetheless not defining a grammar of conversational dialogue.",
address = "London, UK",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (LONDIAL)",
issn = "2308-2275",
month = "jun",
title = "{D}ialogue-grammar correspondence in {D}ynamic {S}yntax",
url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/gargettetal-Semdial-2008.pdf",
year = "2008",
}