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Antecedent (grammar)
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TL;DR: A compositional model-theoretic account of the way the interpretation of indicative conditionals is determined and constrained by the temporal and modal expressions in their constituents, which sheds new light on the relationship between ‘non-predictive’ and ‘epistemic’ readings of indicative Conditionals.
Abstract: This paper proposes a compositional model-theoretic account of the way the interpretation of indicative conditionals is determined and constrained by the temporal and modal expressions in their constituents. The main claim is that the tenses in both the antecedent and the consequent of an indicative conditional are interpreted in the same way as in isolation. This is controversial for the antecedents of predictive conditionals like ‘If he arrives tomorrow, she will leave’, whose Present tense is often claimed to differ semantically from that in their stand-alone counterparts, such as ‘He arrives tomorrow’. Under the unified analysis developed in this paper, the differences observed in pairs like these are explained by interactions between the temporal and modal dimensions of interpretation. This perspective also sheds new light on the relationship between ‘non-predictive’ and ‘epistemic’ readings of indicative conditionals.
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TL;DR: This article found that clefting made antecedent representations more distinctive in working memory, hence more available for subsequent discourse operations, and argued that both effects are due to the greater ambiguity of the ambiguity of it, as a cue to retrieve the correct representation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that outbound anaphora is in fact fully grammatical and governed by independently motivated pragmatic principles, and that the felicity of anaphoric elements is a function of the accessibility of the discourse entity which is evoked by the word-internal element and to which the anaphor is used to refer.
Abstract: It is commonly assumed that words are grammatically prohibited from containing antecedents for anaphoric elements, and thus constitute 'anaphoric islands' (Postal 1969). In this paper, we argue that such anaphora—termed OUTBOUND ANAPHORA—is in fact fully grammatical and governed by independently motivated pragmatic principles. The felicity of outbound anaphora is shown to be a function of the accessibility of the discourse entity which is evoked by the word-internal element and to which the anaphor is used to refer. The morphosyntactic status of the antecedent is but one factor affecting the accessibility of that entity. A series of psycholinguistic experiments support the analysis.
122 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of organizational turnover is expended from previously reported models to include an extraorganizational antecedent and comparison across two different hierarchical levels of management, including role ambiguity, role conflict, and work-family conflict.
Abstract: A model of organizational turnover is expended from previously reported models to include an extraorganizational antecedent and comparison across two different hierarchical levels of management. Role ambiguity, role conflict, and work-family conflict were used as antecedents of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, intent to leave, and actual turnover. The basic model of turnover was supported in both levels of management. In addition, several additional relationships that have been found in previous studies were tested. Implications of these results for retail managers are discussed.
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TL;DR: This article investigated when syntactic constraints become available during the processing of long-distance backwards pronominal dependencies (backward anaphora or cataphora ), and found that the temporal priority for syntactic information observed here reflects the predictability of structural information, rather than the need for an architectural constraint that delays the use of non-syntactic information.
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