Antecedent (grammar)

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

The antecedents of identification: a rhetorical analysis of British Muslim activists' constructions of community and identity.

Abstract: This paper takes as its focus the perception of community. This is analysed through reference to the literature concerning the adoption of more inclusive, superordinate social categories. Whilst most research tends to focus on the consequences of these social categories for self and other perception, we focus on their antecedents. These are typically hypothesized to include such issues as the perception of the subordinate groups' common fate and factors affecting their perceptual differentiation (e.g. their similarity and entitativity). However, rather than conceiving of such issues as pre-given antecedent variables, we explore how these issues (and others) are actively constructed in and through discourse. More specifically, we explore how such issues are sites of contestation as activists with different political projects seek to construct quite different versions of the relevant superordinate community identity. Our data are qualitative and are drawn from contemporary debates amongst British Muslims concerning their relations with non-Muslim Britons and non-British Muslims across the globe. A key issue in these deliberations concerns the nature of British Muslims' identity and the superordinate identifications that best facilitate its expression and realization. We suggest that constructions of common fate, similarity, entitativity etc., far from being 'givens', are the means through which different definitions of Muslim identity are constructed and different forms of collective action mobilized.

Antecedent Factors of International Business Negotiations in the China Context1

Abstract: ■ This study identified variables for defining and measuring the antecedent factors that explicitly or implicitly, affect Western-Chinese business negotiations in the China context. Six factors (Economic Conditions, Etiquette, Social Harmony, Political Pervasiveness, Constituent Shadows, and Face Savings) and 19 variables were retained by using exploratory factor and comparative validity analyses on Chinese negotiator data (n = 478). Comparative analyses also were conducted to examine the influences of respondents' region, gender, management level and firm type (state-owned enterprises vs. joint ventures) on the antecedent factors and variables.

Towards an Account of Extraposition in HPSG

Abstract: This paper investigates the syntax of extraposition in the HPSG framework. We present English and German data (partly taken from corpora), and provide an analysis using lexical rules and a nonlocal dependency. The condition for binding this dependency is formulated relative to the antecedent of the extraposed phrase, which entails that no fixed site for extraposition exists. Our analysis accounts for the interaction of extraposition with fronting and coordination, and predicts constraints on multiple extraposition.

When Students Complain: An Antecedent Model of Students' Intention to Complain

Abstract: This article explores the factors that influence students’ intention to complain following a bad classroom experience using a customer service framework from the marketing literature. An online sur...