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Abstract
Attitude or speech reports in English with a non-parenthetical syntax sometimes give rise to interpretations in which the embedded clause, e.g., "John was out of town" in the report " Jill said that John was out of town", seems to convey the main point of the utterance while the attribution predicate, e.g., " Jill said that", merely plays an evidential or source-providing role (Urmson, 1952). Simons (2007) posits that parenthetical readings arise from the interaction between the report and the preceding discourse context, rather than from the syntax or semantics of the reports involved. However, no account of these discourse interactions has been developed in formal semantics. Research on parenthetical reports within frameworks of rhetorical structure has yielded hypotheses about the discourse interactions of parenthetical reports, but these hypotheses are not semantically sound. The goal of this paper is to unify and extend work in semantics and discourse structure to develop a formal, discourse-based account of parenthetical reports that does not suffer the pitfalls faced by current proposals in rhetorical frameworks.
在非括号语法的英语态度或言语报道中，有时会产生这样的解释，即在“Jill said John was out of town”的报道中嵌入的从句，例如“John was out of town”，似乎传达了话语的主要观点，而属性谓语，例如“Jill said that”，仅仅起到了证据或提供来源的作用(Urmson, 1952)。Simons(2007)认为，插入式阅读产生于报道与之前的话语语境之间的相互作用，而不是来自所涉及的报道的语法或语义。然而，在形式语义学中没有对这些话语相互作用的描述。在修辞结构框架下对插入语的研究产生了关于插入语语篇相互作用的假设，但这些假设在语义上并不合理。本文的目标是统一和扩展语义学和话语结构方面的工作，以发展一种正式的、基于话语的括号报告描述，而不会遭受当前修辞框架中所面临的陷阱。
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