Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance

Autor/innen

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.492

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).
Keywords: co-reference, disjoint reference, dance semantics, iconic semantics, picture
semantics.

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2018

Zitationsvorschlag

Patel-Grosz, Pritty, Patrick Georg Grosz, Tejaswinee Kelkar, und Alexander Refsum Jensenius. 2018. „Coreference and Disjoint Reference in the Semantics of Narrative Dance“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 61 (Januar):199-216. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.492.