NET-BASED DESCRIPTION OF MODALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CONDITIONAL MODALITY)

• Authors: Koseska Violetta , Antoni Mazurkiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The intention of the present paper is to show how the Petri nets formalism can be applied for explaining not only temporal but also modal properties of sentences in natural languages. A special attention has been paid for distinguishing courses of actions with forking (that creates different, but coexistent courses) from branching (that creates different and mutually exclusive courses). It is argued that conditional sentences cannot be represented properly by means of logical implication; instead, for this representation the net description is proposed. Examples serve to show how Petri nets can be viewed as a universal tool (an intermediate language) for analyzing and comparing different natural languages.

Keywords

EN

BRANCHINGS AND FORKS; EVENTS AND HISTORIES; IMPLICATION AND CONDITIONAL; PETRI NETS.; SITUATIONS; STATES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 65-77
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Koseska Violetta

author

Antoni Mazurkiewicz

• Violetta Koseska, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, ul. Bartoszewicza 1b/17, 00-337 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077417