Abstract
Abstract This chapter describes some preliminary work on specifying the relation ship between lexical semantics and discourse structure in order to show how these types of linguistic representations restrict or control inference making (Joshi and Weinstein 1981; Chapter 2). Previously researchers have examined what features of surface utterances contribute to the prominence of entities within an utterance. The present chapter asks what is a plausible, pragmatic principle of organization and how would such a principle affect (1) the structure of lexical representations, and (2) what may be projected to surface structure and in what configuration.
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