TY - GEN ID - cogprints210 UR - http://cogprints.org/210/ A1 - Say, Bilge A1 - Akman, Varol Y1 - 1996/// N2 - 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. PB - GRLMC (Grup de Recerca en Linguistica Matematica i Enginyeria del Llenguatge), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain KW - punctuation KW - discourse KW - information KW - DRT (discourse representation theory). TI - An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation SP - 93 AV - public EP - 94 ER -