Anaphoric Relations In English

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
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Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317421511

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Anaphoric Relations in English and French by Francis Cornish Pdf

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.

Author : Thomas Wasow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008916095

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Anaphoric Relations in English by Thomas Wasow Pdf

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317421528

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Anaphoric Relations in English and French by Francis Cornish Pdf

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.

Author : Glyn Hicks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290007

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The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations by Glyn Hicks Pdf

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by Hornstein, Kayne, and Reuland by reducing them to the core narrow-syntactic operations (specifically, Agree and Merge). Several novel and independently motivated claims about syntactic features and phases are made, not only explaining the previously stipulated roles played by c-command, reference, and locality, but furnishing the dervational binding theory with sufficient flexibility to capture some long-problematic empirical phenomena: These include connectivity effects, ‘picture-noun’ reflexives in English, and anaphor/pronoun non-complementarity. Specific proposals are also made for extending the derivational approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding, with thorough expositions and analyses of the Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.

Author : Francis Cornish,University of Sussex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310661294

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Anaphoric Relations in French and English by Francis Cornish,University of Sussex Pdf

Author : Glyn Hicks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255228

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The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations by Glyn Hicks Pdf

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by Hornstein, Kayne, and Reuland by reducing them to the core narrow-syntactic operations (specifically, Agree and Merge). Several novel and independently motivated claims about syntactic features and phases are made, not only explaining the previously stipulated roles played by c-command, reference, and locality, but furnishing the dervational binding theory with sufficient flexibility to capture some long-problematic empirical phenomena: These include connectivity effects, 'picture-noun' reflexives in English, and anaphor/pronoun non-complementarity. Specific proposals are also made for extending the derivational approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding, with thorough expositions and analyses of the Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.

Author : Thomas Wasow
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271273

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Anaphora in Generative Grammar by Thomas Wasow Pdf

Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements participating in an anaphoric relation and to determine correctly the meaning of the anaphor on the basis of meaning of the antecedent. If a grammar is to reflect the linguistic competence of a native speaker of a language, it must include mechanisms of associating anaphor and antecedent. In this volume the following questions will be considered: What sorts of mechanisms are best suited for representing anaphora in a grammar? What are the conditions on the rule(s) associating anaphors with antecedents? Do the various cases of anaphora form a linguistically significant class of phenomena, and, if so, how can the grammar capture this fact? And what do these answers entail for linguistic theory?

Author : Simon Botley,Tony McEnery
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222725

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Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora by Simon Botley,Tony McEnery Pdf

Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that there needs to be a synthesis, or at least a principled attempt to draw the differing strands of anaphora research together. The selected papers in this volume all contribute to the aim of synthesis and were selected to represent the growing importance of corpus-based and computational approaches to anaphora description, and to developing natural language systems for resolving anaphora in natural language.

Author : Abdallah H. Al-Kahatany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics)
ISBN : MSU:31293008820734

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Anaphoric Relations in Arabic and English Spoken Narratives by Abdallah H. Al-Kahatany Pdf

Author : Madhu Gurtu
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015028938689

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Anaphoric Relations in Hindi and English by Madhu Gurtu Pdf

Description: The book explores the anaphoric relations in Hindi (and English) in the framework of the Government and Binding Theory (GB) developed by Chomsky (1980-81) to account for complex surface properties of a language in a principled manner. In particular, the book deals with the three principles of the Binding Theory of GB and tests their universal applicability vis-à-vis Hindi data. The present study investigates the conditions under which nominal elements in Hindi (whether they are referential expressions, pronominal elements or anaphors) may stand in a relation of co-reference to one another. The book concerns itself with the question of considering for the GB theory the implications of the consequences of the investigations. The book also suggests some possible modifications to explain and accommodate the observed differences. The book contributes to linguistics research both at a descriptive and theoretical level. It also helps uncover systematic patterns of both similarity and variation between Hindi and English. It also points to various areas of research needed to be conducted before a comprehensive theory of Hindi syntax can be arrived at.

Author : Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317881803

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Anaphora Resolution by Ruslan Mitkov Pdf

Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challenges of natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting research devoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with an up-to-date survey of the field, including the author’s own contributions. A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution – computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions. It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphora systems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluation techniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchers in this particular area of computational linguistics. Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLP system, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia and industry.

Author : H. Lasnik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400925427

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Essays on Anaphora by H. Lasnik Pdf

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex tended Standard Theory' (EST). Since the inception of this theory, and virtually since the inception of generative grammar, anaphora has been a central topic of investigation. In current research, it has, perhaps, become even more central, as a major focus of study in such areas as syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and language acquisition. Beginning in the early 1970's, and continuing to the present, Chomsky has developed a comprehensive syntactic theory of anaphora. The articles here are all related to stages in the development of that theory, and can best be understood in relation to that development. For that reason, Chapter 1 presents a historical survey of Chomsky's EST proposals on anaphora, along with brief indications of how the present articles fit into that history. Some of the articles here (e.g. Chapters 4, 8, and 9) proposed extensions of Chomsky's basic ideas to a wider range of phenomena.

Author : Anke Holler,Katja Suckow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110462326

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Empirical Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution by Anke Holler,Katja Suckow Pdf

Traditionally, anaphor resolution focused on structural cues of the antecedent. Recently, the interaction between discourse factors and information structure affecting antecedent salience has been more thoroughly explored. This volume depicts selected peer-reviewed research papers that tackle issues in anaphor resolution from theoretical, empirical and experimental perspectives. These collected articles present a wide spectrum of cross-linguistic data (Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Yurakaré) and also offer new results from L1 and L2 acquisition studies. Data interpretation span from typological to psycholinguistic viewpoints and are related to recent developments in linguistic theory. One data analysis puts the issue of anaphor resolution in a historical context. The experimental findings are complemented by reviews of the current literature on the role of discourse units. This volume gives a comprehensive overview of the state of discussion how the interaction between information structure and contextual discourse affects salience. That's why it will be welcomed by all linguists and psycholinguists who are theoretically and / or experimentally investigating several aspects of anaphor resolution.

Author : Monika Schwarz-Friese,Manfred Consten,Mareile Knees
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723096X

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Anaphors in Text by Monika Schwarz-Friese,Manfred Consten,Mareile Knees Pdf

This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational perspectives, each contribution representing the respective 'state of the art' on a high theoretical and empirical level. The volume contains three thematic parts: Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic Studies on the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions investigate several Indo-European languages.

Author : Ken Safir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198037187

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The Syntax of Anaphora by Ken Safir Pdf

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric readings is not accidental, contrary to most current thinking, but rather should be derived from a principle, one that he proposes in the form of an algorithm. Secondly, he maintains that dependent identity relations are always possible where they are not prohibited by a constraint. Lastly, he proposes that there are no parameters of anaphora - that all anaphora-specific principles are universal, and that the patterns of anaphora across languages arise entirely from a restricted set of lexical properties. This comprehensive consideration of anaphora redirects current thinking on the subject.