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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 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze some of the most outstanding cases of anaphoric reference to a metonymic antecedent in four best-sellers of the last decade.
Abstract: Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de Mendoza; Diez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most outstanding cases of anaphoric reference to a metonymic antecedent in four best sellers. Antecedent selection turns up problematic in certain cases. These difficulties are considerably reduced, however, by means of the distinction between simple and double metonymies, and some constraints and principles that govern the selection of the anaphoric referent: Constraint on Metonymic Anaphora, Domain Availability Principle, Domain Combinability Principle, and Domain Precedence Principle. The operation of mappings and principles is described through the analysis of real language examples. The phenomenon of metonymic anaphora is surveyed along with cases of implicative reference, through which these scholars account for otherwise problematic cases of anaphoric reference. Ruiz de Mendoza's is a highly comprehensive approach as far as metonymic anaphora is concerned, but further research should be carried out regarding its relationship with implicative reference.
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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that in Intentional identity reports the anaphoric pronoun cannot be D-type, i.e., it cannot borrow its reference and descriptive content directly from its antecedent, and moreover the sentence does not require that Nob should know anything about Hob or Hob's mental state.
Abstract: Intentional Identity, introduced by Geach (J Philos 64(20):627–632, 1967), refers to pairs of attitude reports where a pronoun embedded into the second report is anaphoric on a quantifier embedded into the first one. In the Geach sentence (Hob thinks a witch has blighted Bob’s mare, and Nob thinks she killed Cob’s sow) the antecedent carries no commitment to the existence of witches, and moreover the sentence does not require that Nob should know anything about Hob or Hob’s mental state. This fact has given rise to the conviction, almost universally shared, that in Intentional Identity reports the anaphoric pronoun cannot be D-type, i.e. that it cannot borrow its reference and descriptive content directly from its antecedent.
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: This article argued that elliptical VPs do not necessarily present cases of VP ellipsis, and proposed a storing account of ellipsises resolution by resolving a binary relation derived from an antecedent TVP. This avoids the problem ofantecedent containment with internal antecedents and also accounts for clause-external infecedents.
Abstract: This paper argues that elliptical VPs do not necessarily present cases of VP ellipsis. Certainrelative clauses that contain elliptical VPs are analysed as instances of transitive verb phraseellipsis. A storing account of ellipsis resolution is given. Resolution of TVP ellipsis is achievedby resolving a binary relation that derives from an antecedent TVP. This avoids the problem ofantecedent containment with internal antecedents and also accounts for clause-externalantecedents. A NP scoping analysis is dispensed with. Cases of elliptical relative clauses thatare instances of antecedent contained VP ellipsis lead to a revision of quantifier storing.Considerations concerning external antecedents show shortcomings of recent accounts ofantecedent-ellipsis parallelism.
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TL;DR: The late John Webster advocated both for a theological theology and a robust recovery of God's intrinsic perfection as mentioned in this paper and examined how both occupations are related in Webster's thought by setting forth six statements summarising his doctrine of God and his theological approach to it.
Abstract: The late John Webster advocated both for a theological theology and a robust recovery of God's intrinsic perfection. This article examines how both occupations are related in Webster's thought by setting forth six statements summarising his doctrine of God and his theological approach to it. According to Webster, the doctrine of God is theological to the extent it upholds the principle of solus Deus in theology's formal and material consideration of God's perfection. Only thus does theology articulate the crucial distinction between and yet correspondence of God's antecedent perfection and God's intimate presence with us.
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TL;DR: The authors proposed a non-subject constraint, Available Candidates for xiang, which includes a principle utilizing attachment sites of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (for short, SDRT) to determine a set of candidates for the antecedent to xiang a last resort to include the speaker and addressee(s) in the set when there is no available candidate.
Abstract: In this paper, I discuss argument reduction and anaphora resolution of xiang−verbs in Mandarin Chinese. When xiang is prefixed to a verbal stem, one of the arguments of the verbal stem is absorbed, xiang functions as an anaphor replacing the absorbed argument and hence requires an antecedent. I argue that the argument reduction of xiang−verbs depends on the Thematic Role Hierarchy (Bresnan and Kanerva, Language 70:72–131, 1989; Bresnan, Linguistic Inq 20(1):10–50, 1993): the second highest role on the argument structure of a verbal stem to which xiang is attached, is absorbed. For anaphora resolution, I propose a non-subject constraint, Available Candidates for xiang, which includes a principle utilizing attachment sites of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (for short, SDRT) to determine a set of candidates for the antecedent to xiang a last resort to include the speaker and addressee(s) in the set when there is no available candidate, and a pragmatic principle to select the most fitting one from the set of candidates to be the antecedent to xiang. And, I propose an SDRT account for the phenomena observed. I also discuss the reciprocity of xiang-verbs and suggest that reciprocal xiang-verbs and non-reciprocal xiang-verbs have the same origin. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the SDRT account argued in this paper can be extended to zero anaphora resolution (with some modification) and is, at least to a certain degree, applicable to the resolution of the third person singular anaphor ta ‘he/she’.

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