<div dir="ltr">But "so" in "do so" doesn't actually stand in for the ARG2:<div><br></div><div>Kim left, and Sandy did so too.</div><div>Kim bet Pat $500 that the Giants would win, and Sandy did so too.</div> <div><br></div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Paul Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div>Apologies for a couple of typos below, and one clarification.<br> <br> It's not really important whether "so" is treated as a pronoun or do-so as a proto-verb but by "direct object" I meant an ARG2 in the predication for do_v_so corresponding to whatever "so" references or introduces or substitutes for.<div><div class="h5"><br> <br> <br> On 10/9/2013 8:34 AM, Paul Haley wrote:<br> </div></div></div><div><div class="h5"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div>Hi Emily!<br> <br> Yes, but I'm suggest that "pro-" is "pronomial" not "proto"!-) Generally, don't we want elipsis to be reflected in the semantics? That is, in the "u" and "i" type variables in the MRS (or unresolved pronouns)?<br> <br> Shouldn't the MRS for for that doing have an argument to be resolved against the situational argument for the moving? That argument would be "so" treated as a pronoun, which seems the proper semantics since the "so" actually/semantically references some event/situation, no? That is, if pronomial "so" was the direct object of "do" here, I think all would be well.<br> <br> Paul<br> <br> <br> <br> On 10/8/2013 9:14 PM, Emily M. Bender wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hello Paul, <div><br> </div> <div>It looks like "do so" is being treated as a "pro-verb", and that seems appropriate to me. Proverbs (like ellipsis) take their interpretation from context. So this says basically that</div> <div>x6 is doing something, but what that something is needs to be resolved. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Emily</div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Paul Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div>Hi All,<br> <br> In the following, it seems that "so" is more of a pronoun than a preposition (at least it seems "so" to me!).<br> <br> I would appreciate your thoughts on getting reasonable logic from the ERG for this sentence, which is quite interesting when you also consider quantification...<br> <br> <img src="cid:part2.04080700.03050402@haleyai.com" alt=""><br> <br> Thank you and best regards,<br> Paul<br> <br> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear="all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> Emily M. Bender<br> Associate Professor<br> Department of Linguistics<br> Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br> </div> </blockquote> <br> </blockquote> <br> </div></div></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Emily M. Bender<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br> </div>