Antecedent (grammar)

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

Las relaciones anafóricas de los sujetos nulos y explícitos del español y del portugués brasileño: la proximidad tipológica... funciona

Abstract: In this article, we deal with the descriptivist studies that constitute a solid tradition in the linguistic studies of Spanish in Brazil. Our goal is to think one more time about the relationship between Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (PB) considering the distance factor and, for that, we use the notion of textual distance. To achieve this goal, we compared some interview data from Brazilian Portuguese and the Medellin Spanish variety. Regarding the most distant antecedents, the strategy of resumption by NP was the most selected in both PB and Spanish of Medellin. With regard to the closest antecedents, we find a particularity. In PB, contrary to expectations, the most productive strategy was the retaking by NP, with a clause between antecedent and anaphoric element. In the Medellin variety, although the most selected strategy was clitic resumption, we also found a number very close to that of clitic resumption of the NP resumption strategy. It struck us that in the analyzed variety (as in PB) we found great distances between antecedent and anaphoric element.

Sprouting in HPSG: MAX-QUD and Lexico-Syntactic Constraint

Abstract: Shin, Jaeyeon. 2014. Sprouting in HPSG: MAX-QUD and Lexico-Syntactic Constraint. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language 12, 138164. Although sluicing is one of the most discussed topics in the literature, sprouting, where the wh-remnant has no correlate in its antecedent clause, still remains theoretically uncertain. The present paper thus aims to investigate the licensing condition of sprouting by examining its syntactic peculiarities and propose a unified account on both merger and sprouting in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Specifically, we will modify the non-elliptical analysis on sluicing suggested by Ginzburg and Sag (2000), as MAX-QUD, a contextual attribute, takes the ARG-ST list of the verb head in its antecedent clause, so that the wh-sluice can encompass the lexico-syntactic information from the antecedent clause. (Seoul National University)

On ta: The Focus Marker of Numeral Expressions

Abstract: This paper investigates the function of non-referential pronoun ta. Generally, a pronoun should have one possible antecedent. If there is no antecedent for the pronoun ta in the preceding of sentence, we will naturally look backward for its antecedent and focus on the latter. So the pronoun ta has evolved into the focus marker of numeral expressions, and it can make up for the limitation of the focus marker shi.

Computational Approach to Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Dialogues

Abstract: This paper presents an algorithm for identifying noun-phrase antecedents of pronouns and adjectival anaphors in Spanish dialogues. We believe that anaphora resolution requires numerous sources of information in order to find the correct antecedent of the anaphor. These sources can be of different kinds, e.g., linguistic information, discourse/dialogue structure information, or topic information. For this reason, our algorithm uses various different kinds of information (hybrid information). The algorithm is based on linguistic constraints and preferences and uses an anaphoric accessibility space within which the algorithm finds the noun phrase. We present some experiments related to this algorithm and this space using a corpus of 204 dialogues. The algorithm is implemented in Prolog. According to this study, 95.9% of antecedents were located in the proposed space, a precision of 81.3% was obtained for pronominal anaphora resolution, and 81.5% for adjectival anaphora.