Punctuation in Quoted Speech

Details Punctuation in Quoted Speech Punctuation in Quoted Speech

1996-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9608011v1

Computer Science

Computation and Language

11 pages, 11 ps figures, Proceedings of SIGPARSE 96 - Punctuation in Computational Linguistics

Scientific paper

Quoted speech is often set off by punctuation marks, in particular quotation marks. Thus, it might seem that the quotation marks would be extremely useful in identifying these structures in texts. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite so clear. In this work, I will argue that quotation marks are not adequate for either identifying or constraining the syntax of quoted speech. More useful information comes from the presence of a quoting verb, which is either a verb of saying or a punctual verb, and the presence of other punctuation marks, usually commas. Using a lexicalized grammar, we can license most quoting clauses as text adjuncts. A distinction will be made not between direct and indirect quoted speech, but rather between adjunct and non-adjunct quoting clauses.

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