Formalizing Current Relevance

Gerhard Schaden (1)

1 STL - Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

This article presents a way of formalizing the notion of Current Relevance based on the seminal work by Merin (1999). Its aim is to provide formalist linguistics with a valuable tool for accounting for the meaning of present perfects.

Mots clés: probabilistic pragmatics; discourse topic; current relevance; perfect tenses

Domaines: Linguistique

Gerhard Schaden. Formalizing Current Relevance. Sinn und Bedeutung 17, Sep 2012, Paris, France. pp.491-508. ⟨halshs-01348753⟩