@inproceedings{rysova-2014-verbs,
    title = "Verbs of Saying with a Textual Connecting Function in the {P}rague Discourse Treebank",
    author = "Rysov{\'a}, Magdal{\'e}na",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Loftsson, Hrafn  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
    month = may,
    year = "2014",
    address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/L14-1614/",
    pages = "930--935",
    abstract = "The paper tries to contribute to the general discussion on discourse connectives, concretely to the question whether it is meaningful to distinguish two separate groups of connectives {\textemdash} i.e. ``classical'' connectives limited to few predefined classes like conjunctions or adverbs (e.g. ``but'') vs. alternative lexicalizations of connectives (i.e. unrestricted expressions and phrases like ``the reason is'', ``he added'', ``the condition was'' etc.). In this respect, the paper focuses on one group of these broader connectives in Czech {\textemdash} the selected verbs of saying ``doplnit/dopl{\v{n}}ovat'' ({``}to complement''), ``up{\v{r}}esnit/up{\v{r}}es{\v{n}}ovat'' ({``}to specify''), ``dodat/dod{\'a}vat'' ({``}to add''), ``pokra{\v{c}}ovat'' ({``}to continue'') {\textemdash} and analyses their occurrence and function in texts from the Prague Discourse Treebank. The paper demonstrates that these verbs of saying have a special place within the other connectives, as they contain two items {\textemdash} e.g. ``he added'' means ``and he said'' so the verb ``to add'' contains an information about the relation to the previous context ({``}and'') plus the verb of saying ({``}to say''). This information led us to a more general observation, i.e. discourse connectives in broader sense do not necessarily connect two pieces of a text but some of them carry the second argument right in their semantics, which ``classical'' connectives can never do."
}