Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

1. 0. Introduction; 2. 1. On Syntactic Processing; 3. 1.1. Introduction; 4. 1.2. Cohesion as syntactic organization; 5. 1.3. Cohesion as a conspicuous companion; 6. 1.4. On the limited role of cohesion; 7. 1.5. Coherence as semantic organization; 8. 1.6. Coherence as a dominating companion; 9. 1.7. Cohesion as a deficient companion; 10. 1.8. Cohesion as a misleading companion; 11. 1.9. On inferential discourse processing and rational argumentation; 12. 1.10. Summary; 13. 2. On Semantic Processing; 14. 2.1. Introduction; 15. 2.2. On ILRRR information; 16. 2.3. On ILRRR inferences repairing defective cohesion; 17. 2.4. On ILRRR inferences impeding cohesion; 18. 2.5. On the indispensable role of ILRRR inferences; 19. 2.6. On initial KUIP conditions; 20. 2.7. On semantic-logical inferences; 21. 2.8. On the rational underpinning of discourse processing; 22. 2.9. On the indispensability of coherence; 23. 2.10. Summary; 24. 3. On Action Processing; 25. 3.1. Introduction; 26. 3.2. On action and communication; 27. 3.3. On cotextual information about actions; 28. 3.4. On contextual information about actions; 29. 3.5. On the hypothetical reconstruction of action co(n)texts; 30. 3.6. On multileveled action processing; 31. 3.7. Summary; 32. 4. On Disordered Processing; 33. 4.1. Introduction; 34. 4.2. On disordered syntactic processing; 35. 4.3. On disordered semantic processing; 36. 4.4. On disordered action processing; 37. 4.5. Summary; 38. 5. Conclusion; 39. References