Publications

Publication details [#4232]

Hajičová, Eva and Petr Sgall. 1978. A question-answering system and the theory of meaning. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 12 : 537–539.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning | question-answering system | topic vs. focus | truthfulness

Annotation

Truth value and linguistic meaning ought to be distinguished. Moreover if two sentences differ in their topic/focus structure they also differ in meaning.