Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation

Abstract

Analyses of dialogue that incorporate the insights of speech act theory presuppose that an ut- terance gets associated with a conversational move type (CMT). Due to difficulties that beset attempts to integrate CMTs into grammar in early generarive work, as well as the perceived problems concerning multifunctionality, CMT information is typically not included in most formal grammatical analyses. We provide arguments as to why CMT does need to be integrated in grammatical analysis of conversation. We offer a proposal for such an integration couched in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). We sketch explanations as to why our proposal does not run into the foundational and empirical pitfalls that have beset previous proposals.

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