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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 explored the distribution of non-stereotypical definite indirect anaphora in news reports, and its cognitive resolution mechanism, formed by integrating the Accessibility theory and the Frame model.
Abstract: It is intended to explore the distribution of non-stereotypical definite indirect anaphora in news reports, and its cognitive resolution mechanism. The proposed resolution mechanism, formed by integrating the Accessibility theory and the Frame model, assumes that the interpretation of the definite indirect anaphora is the integration of the anaphor into a decisive frame, which is part and parcel of the frames activated by the antecedent trigger and the anaphor. While the anaphor is quite recognizable due to its fixed form of definite articles plus the nominal, the antecedent trigger is much more complicated to be identified. Therefore, a knowledge of the general tendency of the occurrence of the antecedent trigger is helpful to delimit the searching scope. The linguistic clues which function as a guide to the antecedent trigger information can be categorized into 4 types: the headline or the news lead, textual description, frame-heralding markers and punctuation marks. It is hoped that an alternative of understanding the non-stereotypical definite indirect anaphora from the cognitive perspective will be provided.

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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: After mentioning the building of his Church, Jesus stated to Peter (as translated in the KJV) that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt 16:18) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: After mentioning the building of his Church, Jesus stated to Peter (as translated in the KJV) that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt 16:18). The statement, found only in Matthew’s account of the gospel, has the crucial words pylai hadou, the negated verb katischyein, and the object pronoun autes (whose antecedent is uncertain).

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04 Jan 2020
TL;DR: Based on the Apriori algorithm, the association rules of the anaphora in ParCorFull corpus are mined, and the similarities and differences between the written and spoken language represented by speech and discussion are compared.
Abstract: Based on the Apriori algorithm, the association rules of the anaphora in ParCorFull corpus are mined, and the similarities and differences between the written and spoken language represented by speech and discussion are compared. The rules of the whole mining show that the most important anaphora types in news, speech and discussion styles are noun phrases and pronouns respectively. In news style, pronoun is easier to realize the function of antecedent, while in speech and discussion style, noun phrase is more commonly used as anaphora. The rules of local mining show that in journalism, verb phrases are generally not omitted, noun phrases are more directly appeared without modification, and pronouns often point to singular person entity objects with the subject. The rules of speech and discussion are more flexible. Subordinate clauses are all used as anaphoric objects in anaphoric without anaphoric functions.

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07 Jun 2016
TL;DR: This article showed that the existing null argument approaches would have difficulty in accounting for the following facts: disjunction of multi-constituent elements under negation, the difference of island effects in the presence of a linguistic antecedent, the verb identity requirement and the possibility of having part of the idiomatic expression as the missing gap.
Abstract: This paper develops the empirical and theoretical basis for the necessity in admitting the operation of verb-stranding ellipsis (VVPE) in Chinese. I present new arguments showing that, though two analytic possibilities — null argument analysis and VVPE analysis — are in principle available in the grammar of Chinese, they can be differentiated in specific syntactic environments. In particular, I show that the existing null argument approaches would have difficulty in accounting for the following facts: disjunction of multi-constituent elements under negation, the difference of island effects in the presence of a linguistic antecedent, the verb identity requirement and the possibility of having part of the idiomatic expression as the missing gap. Therefore, it is argued that VVPE must remain a viable syntactic operation in Chinese when a null object analysis is unavailable.

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TL;DR: An ERP study in which the focus status of a pronoun's potential antecedents was manipulated by means of a wh-question-answer structure found that, relative to those in the focused position, pronouns referring to antecedent in the unfocused position evoked enhanced positive responses in both early and late time windows.
Abstract: Focus is assumed to be able to enhance the salience of a focused constituent and thereby facilitate the interpretation of a pronoun that refers to a focused antecedent relative to an unfocused antecedent. To assess how discourse-based focus structure influences the interpretation of a pronoun and whether this process is modulated by the grammatical role of the antecedent, we conducted an ERP study in which the focus status of a pronoun's potential antecedents was manipulated by means of a wh-question-answer structure. We found that, relative to those in the focused position, pronouns referring to antecedents in the unfocused position evoked enhanced positive responses in both early (180-230 ms) and late time windows (400-800 ms). Moreover, while a larger positivity was evoked by object-referring pronouns compared to subject-referring pronouns in the 400-800 ms time window over the right hemisphere, there was no effect of grammatical role in the 180-230 ms time window. These findings indicate that, while the initial stage of pronoun resolution is modulated by focus information assigned via a wh-question structure, integration of the pronoun and its antecedent into a coherent discourse representation at the later stage could be constrained by various factors, including the focus status and possibly the grammatical role of the antecedent.

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