Rebecca j. passonneau

contrast with similar uses of the singular demonstrative pronoun that. I present evidence that the two pronouns it and that have pragmatically distinct contexts of use that can be characterized in terms of a remarkably simple set of preconditions. First, in §2 1 delineate the precise nature of the comparison made here.

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The PUNDIT system processes natural language descriptions of situations and the intervais over which they hold using an algorithm t h a t integrates ~ p e e t and ~en~e [ogle. It analyzes the tense and aspect of the real- verb to generate representations of three types of situations-states, processes and events-- and to locate the situations with respect to the time at which the text was produced. Each situation type has a distinct temporal structure, represented in terms of one or more intervals.

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identified. In contrast, the referents of indexicals such as I and you (i.e., the speaker and addressee) are necessary components of the discourse circumstances. 2 Indexical pronouns can be further classified into pure indexicals versus demonstratives, 8 depending on how the current discourse circumstances provide their referents. The referent of a pure indexical is fully determined by the semantic rules and a context, which together pick out a unique referent for each use. Thus I refers to the person who utters it (assuming that I is used to refer).

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