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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: Geach then claimed that some of the problems that raise for the changelessness of God would be lessened if there was an adequate philosophical account of change available as discussed by the authors, which would be possible to give a clear criterion of what a real change is, and to ascertain whether or not 'God wills that A' and 'God will that not-A', supposing them both to be true when uttered at different times, involve a real changes in God, or what Geach calls a 'Cambridge' change.
Abstract: Geach then claims that some of the problems that proposition (i) raises for the changelessness of God would be lessened if there was an adequate philosophical account of change available. With such an account it would be possible to give a clear criterion of what a real change is, and to ascertain whether or not 'God wills that A' and 'God wills that not-A', supposing them both to be true when uttered at different times, involve a real change in God, or what Geach calls a 'Cambridge' change. If the two statements only record a 'Cambridge' change, that is, simply record a change in what can truly be said about God at different times, then this will present no difficulties for an account of divine changelessness. God will no more have changed than Cerberus changes by becoming the most talked-of beast of fable. But if the two statements involve a real change in God, then divine changelessness will be seriously called into question. In his later paper Geach makes the same point, that the distinction between antecedent and consequent will is 'difficult of application' in the

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TL;DR: Hoeltje as mentioned in this paper argues that associating entities with natural language expressions is neither necessary nor sufficient to meet this requirement and develops an account of how a meaning theory may be formulated in terms of a body of knowledge about a recursive truth theory for a language.
Abstract: This paper takes up some limitations of truth-theoretic semantics connected with the requirement that knowledge of a compositional meaning theory for a language put one in a position to understand any potential utterance in the language. I argue that associating entities, such as properties, relations, and propositions, with natural language expressions is neither necessary nor sufficient to meet this requirement. I develop an account of how a meaning theory may be formulated in terms of a body of knowledge about a recursive truth theory for a language. I consider two objections. The first is whether the sort of knowledge said to suffice to enable one to use a truth theory to interpret its object language is insufficient because fails to offer insight into semantic structure (Hoeltje 2013). I offer a response to this objection. The second is that the approach relies on antecedent competence in expressions known to be systematically related in meaning to expressions in the object language. I concede that this objection is correct and I argue that how ‘that’-clauses function in explicit statements of meaning, which are our ultimate target, shows that antecedent competence in a language plays an ineliminable role in how they give us insight into meaning. I conclude that to break out of the circle of language that traditional approaches leave us in we need to relate words and sentences to the roles they are supposed to play in our communicative activities described in more fundamental terms.

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Timothy Osborne1, Thomas Groß1
TL;DR: A new solution to an old problem, the problem of antecedent containment and the infinite regress that it gives rise to is presented, couched in a dependency grammar (DG) framework and is possible by acknowledging DG catenae.
Abstract: . The paper presents a new solution to an old problem, the problem of antecedent containment and the infinite regress that it gives rise to. The solution is couched in a dependency grammar (DG) framework and is possible by acknowledging DG catenae. The catena is a novel unit of syntactic analysis. Pronouns that appear to be contained within their antecedents actually take non-constituent catenae as their antecedents. These catenae quite naturally exclude the pronouns, so that antecedent containment never occurs. This account acknowledges surface configurations only. No appeals are made to derivational mechanisms or abstract representations.

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02 Oct 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors shed light to antecedents and consequences of green innovation and why companies decide to proceed with green innovation, and what are their benefits to the companies and their stakeholders.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to shed light to antecedents and consequences of green innovation. Antecedents and consequences are important to understand why companies decide to proceed green innovation and what are their benefits to the companies and their stakeholders. Antecedents are motivations of companies to conduct green innovation whereas consequences are contributions of them to the World.

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TL;DR: The experimental results show that the identification of the antecedent of the RNs’ implicit argument is constrained by the same principle of binding theory that constrains the reflexive zìjǐ ‘self’, specifically requiring a c-commanding antecedents.
Abstract: This paper provides experimental and theoretical evidence for the syntactic realization of an implicit possessor argument in Relational Nouns (RNs, e.g. father) in Mandarin Chinese. The results of Experiment 1 show that the antecedent of the implicit argument in RNs must be a noun phrase (NP) in the sentence where the RN is located, rather than an NP in the discourse context. Experiment 2 shows that the implicit argument of RNs must be bound by a c-commanding NP. The results exclude the possibility that the RNs' implicit argument is a pronominal that would link to a contextually salient NP and would not require a c-commanding referential antecedent. Rather, the experimental results show that the identification of the antecedent of the RNs' implicit argument is constrained by the same principle of binding theory that constrains the reflexive zijǐ 'self', specifically requiring a c-commanding antecedent.

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