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Antecedent (grammar)

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


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TL;DR: This article used event-related potentials to examine the interaction between two dimensions of discourse comprehension: (i) referential dependencies across sentences (e.g. between the pronoun 'it' and its antecedent 'a novel' in: 'John is reading a novel' and (ii) the distinction between reference to events/situations and entities/individuals in the real/actual world versus in hypothetical possible worlds).
Abstract: We used event-related potentials to examine the interaction between two dimensions of discourse comprehension: (i) referential dependencies across sentences (e.g. between the pronoun 'it' and its antecedent 'a novel' in: 'John is reading a novel. It ends quite abruptly'), and (ii) the distinction between reference to events/situations and entities/individuals in the real/actual world versus in hypothetical possible worlds. Cross-sentential referential dependencies are disrupted when the antecedent for a pronoun is embedded in a sentence introducing hypothetical entities (e.g. 'John is considering writing a novel. It ends quite abruptly'). An earlier event-related potential reading study showed such disruptions yielded a P600-like frontal positivity. Here we replicate this effect using auditorily presented sentences and discuss the implications for our understanding of discourse-level language processing.

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TL;DR: Gauvain this paper was the favorite nephew of King Arthur, who gave him the title of mes sire or mon seignor, but none of his works bears his name.
Abstract: Devant toz les buens chevaliers Dolt estre Gauvains li premiers; and, accordingly, as the favorite nephew of Arthur, he gives him the title of mes sire or mon seignor. It is natural, then, that Gauvain is held up as a model of what other knights should be. Yet none of Chr6tien's works bears his name. He plays a prominent role in Erec, Cligis, Lancelot, Yvain, and especially Perceval, but always as a contrasting figure with whom the title-hero is compared or associated. It is interesting, therefore, to learn how he acquired this position and what particular traits of knighthood he illustrates. The date of the Eree is approximately 1170, but antecedent to it the name and qualities of Gauvain occur in various places, quite apart from the general Celtic background to which Gauvain may belong.1' Let us see what these previous references

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the semantic contribution and distribution of conditional antecedents containing the discourse particle denn, abbreviated as AWD, and propose that AWDs occur only in contexts where the speaker does not believe the antecedent proposition p to hold and the truth of p has been nonexplicitly (= tacitly) proposed.
Abstract: We discuss the semantic contribution and distribution of conditional antecedents containing the discourse particle denn (“antecedents with denn”, abbreviated as AWD). We propose that AWDs occur only in contexts where (i) the speaker does not believe the antecedent proposition p to hold, and (ii) the truth of p has been nonexplicitly (= tacitly) proposed. To gain a better understanding of (ii), we conduct two corpus studies. The first study investigates the relative location of AWDs with respect to their consequents. We find that unlike antecedents of regular hypothetical conditionals, AWDs occur significantly more often after the material in the consequent and parenthetically inside this material than before it. In a second study, we investigate the position of the tacit proposal relative to the AWD. We find that it typically precedes the AWD. Both results are in accordance with (ii). We then present a classification of the types of tacit proposals that we find with AWDs: speakers use AWDs to qualify their own statements or to doubt proposals of others, in both cases managing potential updates to the common ground.

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TL;DR: In this article, a negative existential quantified phrase is taken to bind the pronominal subject in a manner similar to variable binding in predicate logic, where the subject is not referred to by the pronoun, but is instead taken to bound the subject's antecedent in a way similar to the cross-the-board binding.
Abstract: Example (1)’s pronominal’s antecedent is a negative existential quantified phrase. There’s nothing here for the pronoun to refer to, and so the quantified subject is instead taken to bind his in a manner akin to variable binding in predicate logic. Example (2) represents a case of so-called “across-the-board” (ATB) binding. On the indicated reading, (2) means that John loves John’s mother, and Bill hates Bill’s mother. The pronominal, then, is simultaneously “co-referential” with two antecedents—and hence actually referential to nothing. Argument-doubling binding, in particular that characteristic of Jacobson (1999)’s variable-free logic for anaphora, is well-suited to such cases, as shown explicitly in Jacobson (1996).

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TL;DR: The authors examine two sets of blogs: blogs responding to a national literary event called Canada Reads and "homeless blogs" and suggest how features of the blog such as blog posts and meta-generic commentary about antecedent genres may enable a blogger to legitimate the self as an integral part and perpetuator of publics.
Abstract: In this paper, we take a rhetorical approach to weblogs, examining two sets of blogs: blogs responding to a national literary event called Canada Reads and ‘homeless blogs.’ Taking up Miller and Shepherd’s proposal (2004) that the exigence of the blog is self cultivation and validation, we examine how such an exigence may be met, not through entering and building community, but engaging with and arranging for recognition in what Michael Warner calls ‘discursive publics’ (2002:121). By focusing on uptake (Freadman 2002) as a public dynamic, we suggest how features of the blog such as blog posts and ‘meta-generic’ commentary (Giltrow 2002:192) about antecedent genres may enable a blogger to legitimate the self as an integral part and perpetuator of publics: a blogger’s uptake both actualizes a public (declaring membership), and imagines it anew (envisioning subsequent uptakes).

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