Antecedent (grammar)

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

As and other relativizers after same in present-day standard English

Abstract: This is a large-scale corpus study of relative constructions containing same in the antecedent. These differ from other relative constructions in that they permit the use of as as a relativizer and thus offer different possibilities of variation than other relative constructions, something that has not been well described in handbooks. We found that same-constructions occur much more frequently with relativizers having adverbial function, and that they also show a different semantic patterning than other adverbial relative constructions. The most common relativizer in speech is as with over 50%; in writing, as and that each account for about a third. A variable rule analysis showed that the factors independently favouring the choice of as were the function of same as antecedent head, the functions of as as adverbial or subject complement, and occurrence in speech. There are also some differences between speech and writing when as is the relative marker in adverbial function, in that the ranking is manner-temporal-locative in speech and temporal-manner-locative in writing. We discuss our findings in the light of the pragmatics of same-constructions and consider the history of as as a relative marker in English.

Restrictive Relative Clauses in Classical and Modern New Persian and the Marking of the Antecedent

Abstract: This article is a corpus based study of restrictive relative clauses in Classical and Modern written New Persian from the 10th to the 20th century A.D. Different types of restrictive relative claus ...

Descriptive review of positive and negative antecedent social loafing during pandemic covid-19

Abstract: In this reviewe we aimed to explore the alleged “positive and negative” antecedent relationships towards social loafing and to understand what kind of contribution could reduce the occurrence of social loafing during the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 This article uses a descriptive review approach with systemic findings and also inclusion and exclusion processes sourced from the digital library subscription of the Republic of Indonesia (https://e-resources perpusnas go id) and google scholar (https://scholar google com) using the keyword “social loafing” since January-November 2020 at the time the Covid-19 pandemic occurred and 3,682 articles were found as the population in this study The results of this descriptive review indicate that antecedent self-efficacy, exchange ideology, task visibility, hedonic motivation, informal, official, decision, process accountability, workplace envy has a positive relationship directly towards social loafing and specifically antecedent workplace envy Workplace envy can be a form of moderated Self-esteem, whereas antecedent Person-organization fit, Professional Respect, Organizational reward systems, work engagement, Strategic Innovation, Trust, Enjoyment in helping, Individuals Communication have a negative relationship with social loafing and especially antecedent Enjoyment in helping, Individuals Communication can be mediated through community identification Originality, many researchers around the world have conducted empirical studies on social loafing However, no one has yet conducted a descriptive review focusing on the turbulence of the Covid-19 pandemic which affects almost all business processes Also, no one has explored the “positive and negative” antecedent relationship with social learning, even though this is a fundamental factor in managing individuals during WFH (work from home) © IJCRR

Clause-internal antitopics in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan verb-second language

Abstract: This article deals with clausal constituent order and dislocation constructions in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language with indicative clauses being verb-second. The preverbal slot is occupied by either an unmarked NP which may have any or no grammatical relation to the verb, a focus constituent, or a particular function word. This slot may be empty, but in that case it implies a zero third person referent. In addition to left-dislocated NPs, which are clause-external and which are resumed pronominally clause-internally, in some cases by zero, Berta also has a construction in which an NP is right-dislocated but remains inside the clause. This “antitopic” is marked by a preposition, and it has a clause-internal pronominal antecedent which may be zero and which is either a subject, an object or an adverbial. The clause-internal status of the antitopic is evidenced by the fact that it may be followed by certain other clause-internal constituents.

An argument concerning quantification and propositional attitudes

Abstract: These are perfectly ordinary, garden variety English sentences. They mark a clear contrast, one which Quine taught us to pay attention to.' A sentence like (1) attributes a belief merely that there is a thing of a certain kind. There may be no particular thing of that kind that she has in mind. Many different restaurants might make Hollie's belief true. (2), on the other hand, says there is some particular restaurant about which she has an opinion. The qualities of that restaurant alone determine the truth of her belief. If you are interested in eating Chinese tonight, you might get in touch with Hollie because (2) is true, but not because of (1). Many different kinds of sentence can be used to say the sort of thing that (2) says, that is, that someone has some belief about some particular thing. These sentences are all similar in that they involve linguistic cross reference from within the scope of a propositional attitude verb to an antecedent outside of that context. In (2) the cross reference is by way of the absent subject of the contained sentence. In the familiar languages of logic the cross reference is accomplished by a variable bound by a quantifier outside the propositional attitude