Imperatives as Obligatory and Permitted Actions

We present a dynamic deontic model for the interpretation of imperative sentences in terms of Obligation (O) and Permission (P). Under the view that imperatives prescribe actions and unlike the so-called “standard solution” (Huntley, 1984) these operators act over actions rather that over statements. Then by distinguishing obligatory from non obligatory actions we tackle the paradox of Free Choice Permission (FCP).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CICLING
• Authors: Miguel Pérez-Ramírez, Chris Fox
• Keywords: CICLING 2003, Dynamic Deontic Model, Imperatives Prescribe Actions, Natural Language Processing, Non Obligatory Actions