Natural Language Production in Database Semantics

Abstract. A theory of natural language production (speaker mode) has to answer the following questions: (i) Where does the content serving as input to language production come from? (ii) In which format is this relatively language-independent content stored, processed, and retrieved? and (iii) How is activated content mapped into well-formed surfaces of a certain natural language? After brief answers to (i) and (ii), this paper concentrates on (iii), illustrating the time-linear method of Database Semantics (DBS) on some of the most notorious grammatical constructions of natural language