Antecedent (grammar)

About: Antecedent (grammar) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1392 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41824 citations.

Identifying Syntactic Role of Antecedent in Korean Relative Clause using Corpus and Thesaurus Informationes

Abstract: This paper describes an approach to identifying the syntactic role of an antecedent in a Korean relative clause, which is essential to structural disambiguation and semantic analysis. In a learning phase, linguistic knowledge such as conceptual co-occurrence patterns and syntactic role distribution of antecedents is extracted from a large-scale corpus. Then, in an application phase, the extracted knowledge is applied in determining the correct syntactic role of an antecedent in relative clauses. Unlike previous research based on co-occurrence patterns at the lexical level, we represent co-occurrence patterns with concept types in a thesaurus. In an experiment, the proposed method showed a high accuracy rate of 90.4% in resolving ambiguities of syntactic role determination of antecedents.

Narrative Coherence and Antecedent Ethos in the Rhetoric of Attack Advertising: A Case Study of the Glendening vs. Sauerbrey Campaign

Abstract: Attack advertising dominated the 1998 Maryland gubernatorial campaign between Parris Glendening and Ellen Sauerbrey Those who have studied negative advertising have established its importance; furthermore, they have established much of its rhetoric, noting many of the crucial characteristics of the audio-visual text Absent from that rhetoric is a clear sense of how such advertising works in conjunction with the preexisting narratives and antecedent ethos/images of candidates An analysis of the advertisements used by Glendening and Sauerbrey in the 1998 Maryland campaign suggests the importance of coherence with the preexisting narratives and antecedent ethos in these ads' rhetorical effectiveness

A referent grammatical analysis of relative clauses

Abstract: Relative clauses have traditionally been said to have an antecedent or a correlate corresponding to a coreferent, missing, and relativized constituent in the relative clause (some representative works on relative clauses are mentioned in the list of references). Referent grammar (Sigurd, 1987) assumes referent variables in the syntactic representations of noun phrases and it is natural to assume that it is a referent variable, which is the antecedent or the correlate, not an individual word or individual words. The advantages of this analysis will be shown in this paper. The paper includes a survey of the main types of relative clauses with some typological comments. Swedish and English will be used as the main languages of demonstration. As Referent Grammar (RG) is formalized in Definite Clause Grammar (DCG), a formalism supported by many Prolog programs, the analysis can be implemented directly and run on a computer. The analysis presented in this paper is part of a computer program used for automatic translation by SWETRA (Swedish Computer Translation Research Center at the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, SWEDEN).

Constraints on Donkey Pronouns

Abstract: This article reports on an experimental study of donkey pronouns, pronouns (e.g. it) whose meaning covaries with that of a non-pronominal noun phrase (e.g. a donkey) even though they are not in a structural relationship that is suitable for quantifiervariable binding. We investigate three constraints, (i) the preference for the presence of an overt NP antecedent that is not part of another word, (ii) the salience of the position of an antecedent that is part of another word, and (iii) the uniqueness of an intended antecedent (in terms of world knowledge). We compare constructions in which intended antecedents occur in a context such as who owns an N / who is an N-owner with constructions of the type who was without an N / who was N-less. Our findings corroborate the existence of the overt NP antecedent constraint, and also show that the salience of an unsuitable antecedent’s position matters. Furthermore, our findings show that uniqueness only matters in the N-less type construction and not in the N-owner type construction; we conclude that this supports a potential approach in terms of dynamic semantics over a competing e-type approach.

The influence of antecedent factors of IS/IT utilization towards organizational performance a case study of IAIN Raden Fatah Palembang

Abstract: Information technology is one thing that is important in supporting the operational success of an organization. In an uncertain environment, information is needed primarily to support the performance of organization in decision-making. Information Systems is an orderly combination of human, hardware, software and communication network of data resources, which collect, modify, and distribute information within an organization to support organizational decision-making and control. But before the IS/IT is implemented, it is worth considering the antecedent factors that may be used as reference to see the history before the IS/IT is implemented, whether antecedent factors of IS/IT implementation has correlation and influence on organizational performance. Antecedent factors consist of six aspects, which are social factors, attitudes, support conditions, system complexity, long-term consequences and habits. This study aims to find empirical evidence that there is correlation and influence between antecedent factors of IS/IT implementation and organizational performance. Using Pearson correlation analysis and Regression analysis for the testing, the results obtained showed that attitude, facilitating conditions and system complexity have correlation with organizational performance. Among these, only attitude and facilitating condition that influence organizational performance.