Zusammenfassung
At the start of my career, I had the good fortune of working with
Ron Kaplan on Bill Woods’ Lunar system (Woods et al., 1972). One
day, in talking with Ron, I marvelled to him over the range of syntac-
tic constructions I was able to implement in Lunar’s ATN grammar
formalism. Ron replied was that you could implement anything in an
ATN: the point was, rather, to identify the minimal machinery required
for a task. This sensible advice I subsequently sought to follow, and in
this paper for Ron’s festschrift, I try to apply it to understanding and
comparing accounts of discourse relations.
Nutzer