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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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01 Dec 2000-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors contrast the bare que' hypothesis -that a prepositionless que' is always a complementizer and never a relative pronoun -to the unique que'' hypothesis, that que'' is a complementary pronoun even when preceded by a prior preposition.
Abstract: To study the alleged ambiguity of bare que' it is necessary to contrast the bare que' hypothesis - a prepositionless que' is always a complementizer and never a relative pronoun - to the unique que' hypothesis - que' is a complementizer even when preceded by a preposition. The argumentation favors the bare que' hypothesis, a hypothesis which also demonstrates that the determiner in prepositionless art + que' is the indicator of a partial antecedent. Pedagogical recommendations for the teaching of relative clauses close the discussion.

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The authors examined three stages in Austen's early literary career, each demarcating her development from satirist of existing literary models to an innovating author fundamentally engaged with the contemporary fictional landscape.
Abstract: Although the aim of my study is to contextualize Austen’s later novels in terms of the fiction of the 1810s, it is nevertheless important to examine her earlier relationship with the antecedent novel market. Such an analysis is crucial to our understanding of both the mature novels and the continuous development of her oeuvre. This chapter will consequently examine three stages in Austen’s early literary career, each demarcating her development from satirist of existing literary models to an innovating author fundamentally engaged with the contemporary fictional landscape. The first section will briefly detail Austen’s early role as an interpreter of contemporary fictions, notably through her juvenilia, while the second and third sections will discuss her unsuccessful attempts to publish in 1797 and 1803.

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TL;DR: An attempt to teach coat-buttoning skills to two women with severe learning difficulties using an antecedent enhancement procedure produced swift acquisition of the required component responses in both subjects.
Abstract: . The manipulation of the natural antecedents of a task offers a potentially valuable alternative to teaching strategies requiring the presentation of additional prompting stimuli, particularly in work with individuals with severe learning difficulties. The utility of procedures involving the enhancement of natural antecedents has frequently been demonstrated, but this has generally been with respect to tasks of limited ecological validity. This study reports an attempt to teach coat-buttoning skills to two women with severe learning difficulties using an antecedent enhancement procedure. Manipulation of the natural antecedents of coat buttoning produced swift acquisition of the required component responses in both subjects. Further, these skills generalized successfully across both materials (other coats) and time (6-month follow-up). Such antecedent enhancement procedures may be of particular value to ihe extent that they offer a consistent means of presenting subtle, interactive interventions without requiring advanced teaching skills on the part of staff.

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Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that counteridenticals are best analyzed along the lines of dream reports, and they suggest an analysis of counteridentical with Percus and Sauerland's (2003) analysis of a dream report.
Abstract: Counteridenticals are counterfactual conditional sentences whose antecedent clauses contain an identity statement, e.g. If I were you, I’d buy the blue dress. Here, we argue that counteridenticals are best analyzed along the lines of dream reports. After showing that counteridenticals and dream reports exhibit striking grammatical and perceptual parallels, we suggest an analysis of counteridenticals with Percus and Sauerland’s (2003) analysis of dream reports. Following their proposal, we propose to make use of concept generators, realized as centered worlds. To this end, we argue that the presence of if licenses the presence of an imagine-operator, which constitutes the attitude the antecedent clause ‘x be-PAST y’ is taken under; The speaker predicates, in the imagine mode, the consequent property to his/her imagined self. To capture the different degrees of identification between the subject and the predicate of the identity statement of counteridenticals’ antecedents observed in the literature, we incorporate Percus and Sharvit’s (2014) notion of asymmetric be into the analysis. This proposal has several advantages over existing analyses (Lakoff, 1996; Kocurek, 2016) of counteridentical meaning, as it both explains the different degrees of identification observed for counteridenticals and correctly predicts the parallels between counteridenticals and dream reports.

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202052
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