Antecedent (grammar)

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

A Mentoring Model for Management in Sport and Physical Education

Abstract: Several authors (Dreher & Ash, 1990; Fagenson, 1989, 1992; Hunt & Michael, 1983; Kram, 1985; Newby & Heide, 1992; Scandura, 1992) have emphasized the importance of mentoring in facilitating onc's progress through a career in management. This paper presents a mentoring model that combines the various factors impinging on mentoring and the associated outcomes in a compre hensive framework. In the model, a set of antecedent mentor and protege characteristics, including demogaphics and traits. lead to certain mentoring functions, which subsequently result in specified outcomes. The stages of a mentoring relationship—initiation, cultivation, and redefinition—are explained. Mentoring functions. relate both lo career mobility and personal achievement and growth. Mentoring benefits al1 parties—protege, mentor, and organization. The model also includes intervening variables that modify the relationships among antecedents. mentoring stages and functions, and outcome variable. The paper outlines implications of and ...

Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in English-Italian bilingual children

Abstract: This study reports the results of a picture verification task assessing the interpretation of intra-sentential anaphora and cataphora in Italian by a group of English–Italian bilingual eight-year-olds, a group of age-matched Italian monolinguals, and a group of Italian monolingual adults. No significant differences between the groups were observed in the choice of a subject antecedent for null anaphoric pronouns, and only marginally significant differences were reported between the adults and the two groups of children for the interpretation of null cataphoric pronouns. By contrast, overt pronominal subjects were accepted as co-referential with a subject antecedent significantly more often by the bilingual children than by the monolingual children and the adults in the anaphoric condition, and both groups of children accepted a subject as the antecedent of an overt cataphoric pronoun significantly more often than the adults. These results are interpreted in the context of language-universal and language-specific processing strategies in anaphora resolution in bilingual and monolingual acquisition.

The Antecedents of Service Expectations

Abstract: Expectations are an important element in the modelling of both service quality and customer satisfaction, through the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm. However, understanding of the way in which differing classes of expectations are formed is limited. To date, studies concerned with the antecedents of expectations have been highly exploratory and mainly qualitative in nature. Although this study is also to an extent exploratory, it advances the debate surrounding expectations by offering systematic quantitative testing of two different classes of expectations. Data were collected on service expectations for bank accounts prior to consumption, along with information on possible antecedents. Hierarchical regression analysis was then employed to interpret the data. The results showed implicit service promises are an important antecedent of both 'predictive' and 'desired' classes of expectations. In addition, explicit services promises have some influence on predictive expectations, whilst word of mouth i...

Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions: Evidence from German Scrambling

Abstract: In Chomsky's theory of grammar, syntactic representations are said to contain movement traces, i.e., syntactically active but phonetically null copies of displaced constituents. Correspondingly, traces have been claimed to form part of the processing of sentence structure by showing that at trace sites the parser reactivates a moved constituent. This view has been contested, however, by researchers arguing that experimental findings can better be explained in terms of direct associations between subcategorizers and arguments. Against this background, we investigate antecedent reactivation effects in scrambled double-object constructions of German in two cross-modal priming experiments. We found significant priming effects at positions at which a movement analysis of these constructions would postulate an empty category, thus suggesting that the antecedent is indeed reactivated at the gap position. The Direct Association Hypothesis, on the other hand, cannot account for the priming effects we found. Implications for processing and for syntactic analyses of scrambling in German will be discussed.