@misc{cogprints210, title = {An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation}, author = {Bilge Say and Varol Akman}, publisher = {GRLMC (Grup de Recerca en Linguistica Matematica i Enginyeria del Llenguatge), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain}, year = {1996}, pages = {93--94}, keywords = {punctuation, discourse, information, DRT (discourse representation theory).}, url = {http://cogprints.org/210/}, abstract = {Punctuation marks have recently attracted attention within the linguistics community mostly from a syntactic perspective. In this paper, we aim to give a preliminary account of information-based aspects of punctuation marks, drawing our points from examples and links with related phenomena such as intonation. We give our initial treatment within the Discourse Representation Theory.} }