{"pk":31748,"title":"Resolutino of Syntactic Ambiguity: The Case of New Subjects","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I review evidence for the claim that syntactic ambiguities\nare resolved on the basis of the meaning of the competing\nanalyses, not their structure. I identify a collection of\nambiguities that d o not yet have a meaning-based account\nand propose one which is based on the interaction of\ndiscourse and grammatical function. I provide evidence\nfor m y proposal by examining statistical properties of the\nPenn Treebank of syntactically annotated text.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9084n7sq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Niv","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31748/galley/22816/download/"}]}