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Eckhard Bick - VISL

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Given that a sentence like (5) is most likely to appear in fiction or direct speech,<br />

the second, lexical, ambiguity (between 'see' and 'saw') can be resolved by a heuristic<br />

CG-rule 84 that exploits the statistical fact that the distribution of present and past tenses<br />

is text-type-dependent, and prefers - in stories - past tense over present tense readings<br />

for main clause finite verbs without sentence-initial or -final quotes, or quoting speechverbs:<br />

(7) REMOVE (PRESENT) IF (0 PAST)<br />

(NOT *-1 VFIN)<br />

(NOT @1 QUOTE OR CLB-ORD)<br />

(NOT @-1 QUOTE)<br />

(**1 @

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