Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance

Authors

  • Pritty Patel-Grosz
  • Patrick Georg Grosz
  • Tejaswinee Kelkar
  • Alexander Refsum Jensenius

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22.78

Abstract

This paper presents an exploratory production study of Bharatanatyam, a figurative (narrative) dance. We investigate the encoding of coreference vs. disjoint reference in this dance and argue that a formal semantics of narrative dance can be modeled in line with Abusch’s (2013, 2014, 2015) semantics of visual narrative (drawing also on Schlenker’s, 2017a, approach to music semantics). A main finding of our investigation is that larger-level group-boundaries (Charnavel, 2016) can be seen as triggers for discontinuity inferences (possibly involving the dynamic shift from one salient entity to another).

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Published

2019-05-17

How to Cite

Patel-Grosz, P., Grosz, P. G., Kelkar, T., & Jensenius, A. R. (2019). Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 22(2), 199–216. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22.78

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22

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Copyright (c) 2018 Pritty Patel-Grosz, Patrick Georg Grosz, Tejaswinee Kelkar, Alexander Refsum Jensenius

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