scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Topic

Antecedent (grammar)

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


Papers
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: It is proposed that Russian possesses a minimally specified silent pronoun which is phonologically deficient and must cliticize onto a higher projection and thus can only be found in the presence of an overt complementizer.
Abstract: While in matrix clauses pronouns are almost never dropped in Russian, null pronouns are licensed in almost all kinds of embedded clauses. Null pronouns in such positions share similarities with PRO, but they also differ from PRO in many respects. In this paper, I show that there are two kinds of environments in which such pronouns can appear. The first kind of environment includes complements of attitude verbs, where there is strong evidence for a syntactic relation between the null pronoun and its antecedent. In the second kind of environment, which includes sentential adjuncts and embedded wh-questions, the nature of this relation seems to be different. I propose that Russian possesses a minimally specified silent pronoun which is phonologically deficient and must cliticize onto a higher projection and thus can only be found in the presence of an overt complementizer. I adopt the idea proposed in (Holmberg A. Linguist Inq 36(4):533–564, 2005) that a major feature of pro-drop phenomena is the valuation of the D feature of the null pronoun. I propose that in Russian the null pronoun is unable to value this feature inside the clause where it is merged and therefore must probe outside the clause to get the D feature valued. The difference between properties of silent pronouns in the two kinds of environments is derived from the exact mechanism by which the valuation takes place. In the case of complements of attitude verbs, the valuation takes place as a result of an agree relation, in other cases the valuation takes place via a topic-chain.
Journal Article
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined age and work experience as antecedents of ethical decision making of managers and found that more experienced managers are more idealistic and less relativistic than lessexperienced managers.
Abstract: Cognitive moral development theory positsthat an individual’s cognition, emotion andjudgment changes as one move throughstages of moral development. Age and workexperience have been suggested asdeterminants of ethical ideology which in turninfluences ethical behavior. This studyexamined age and work experience asantecedents of ethical decision making ofmanagers. Ethical judgment and ethicalintention were used to measure ethicaldecision making. The findings indicate thatolder managers are not necessarily moreethical than younger managers. But theevidence demonstrated further that moreexperienced managers are more ethical thanless experienced managers. It can beconcluded that work experience rather thanmere age is the real antecedent of ethicalbehavior. Further analyses showed that thisconclusion may be due to the evidence thatmore experienced managers are more idealistic and less relativistic than lessexperienced managers.
DOI
04 Nov 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the effect of gender agreement mismatches between personal pronouns and their antecedents across sentences, and test whether acceptability of grammatical gender agreement violations on animated nouns may be modulated by grammatical and contextual features of the antecedent of personal pronouns.
Abstract: This article focuses on the effect of gender agreement mismatches between personal pronouns and their antecedents across sentences. In two acceptability experiments, we test whether acceptability of gender agreement violations on animated nouns may be modulated by grammatical and contextual features of the antecedents of personal pronouns. In the first experiment, we manipulated the “specificity” feature of the antecedent in order to make the antecedent refer either to the class of individuals or to a specific referent. In the second experiment, we used stereotypically male or female proper names to test whether grammatical gender mismatches between personal pronouns and bigender nouns could be attenuated. Although the first experiment showed an effect explainable purely by grammatical factors, against many theories of “semantic” agreement, the results of the second experiment suggest that both the grammatical and the contextual features of the antecedent are computed when speakers evaluate agreement relations between personal pronouns and their antecedents.
Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: A surface-based analysis of so-called floating quantifiers (FQs) in Japanese is proposed based on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Minimal Recursion Semantics and accounts for the asymmetry between the subject and object in terms of the quantification by a non-adjacent FQ.
Abstract: A surface-based analysis of so-called floating quantifiers (FQs) in Japanese is proposed based on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Minimal Recursion Semantics. We hypothesize that sentences with FQs, as other sentences, are processed incrementally from left to right and that an FQ has an independent semantic representation as NP that is anaphorically related to its antecedent. On these assumptions, we account for the asymmetry between the subject and object in terms of the quantification by a non-adjacent FQ. We also address a kind of FQ construction that has hitherto escaped the researchers’ attention, that with a whole-part relationship between the FQ and its host, and show that it is explained by the framework we bring forward.
10 Apr 2005
TL;DR: The authors analyze the properties of elements like he himself in English, which has to be coreferent with a non-local c-commanding antecedent, provided there is one in the sentence.
Abstract: In this paper, we discuss data that were first introduced in a brief but we believe unsettled controversy in Linguistic Inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s that has not received much attention since. We analyze the properties of elements like he himself in English, which has to be coreferent with a non-local c-commanding antecedent, provided there is one in the sentence. We take he himself to be the result of the adjunction of himself to he at a certain point in the derivation. After presenting our analysis we discuss its theoretical implications.

Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20222
202159
202052
201957
201863
201762