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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 2005
TL;DR: A tool, called ILIMP, is presented, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive.
Abstract: We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent, and the expletive occurrences of this pronoun, for which it does not make sense to look for an antecedent. The precision rate for ILIMP is 97,5%. The few errors are analyzed in detail. Other tasks using the method developed for ILIMP are described briefly, as well as the use of ILIMP in a modular syntactic analysis system.

21 citations

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TL;DR: The authors found that people overwhelmingly produced causal antecedent continuations for describing interpersonal events (John hugged Mary), but causal consequence continuations to descriptions of transfer events, indicating that there is no global cognitive style, but rather inference generation is crucially tied to the input.

21 citations

Andrés Saab1
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a purely formal identity condition on nominal ellipsis, as proposed in Depiante & Masullo (2001), is not a sufficient condition and a structural condition is added to the theory to explain why some nouns in the left periphery of the DP cannot be elided even when an identical antecedent is available in the linguistic context.
Abstract: This paper centers on the problem of identity in Spanish nominal ellipsis. It is argued that a purely formal identity condition on nominal ellipsis, as proposed in Depiante & Masullo (2001), is not a sufficient condition and a structural condition is added to the theory. Concretely, it is argued that nominal ellipsis only affects the nP layer (see also Ticio 2003 and Saab 2004a-b) excluding NumP as a possible target for non-pronunciation. This hypothesis not only accounts for the well-known fact that number, but not gender, can obviate the identity condition on ellipsis, but can also explains why some nouns in the left periphery of the DP cannot be elided even when an identical antecedent is available in the linguistic context. It is also shown that data from ellipsis reveal a non-uniform behavior of some morphosyntactic properties of Spanish nouns, in particular, with respect to gender resolution. It is proposed then that gender is a property on n that is resolved post-syntactically through certain information available on n itself or on Roots (such as the presence of a sex feature). This goes against a long lexicalist tradition in Spanish grammar including Depiante & Masullo (2001) and is in consonance with recent findings in Nunes & Zocca (2009) and Bobaljik & Zocca (2010). Finally, ellipsis data provide an interesting argument in favor of a late insertion approach for Roots and lead me to formulate an identity condition that dissociates functional morphemes and Roots.

20 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined Chinese children's knowledge of long-distance binding of the bare reflexiveziji (self) and their knowledge of other proforms, namely, taziji (himself), andta (him).
Abstract: This paper examines Chinese children's knowledge of long-distance binding of the bare reflexiveziji (self) and their knowledge of other proforms, namely,taziji (himself) andta (him). The experimental results from previous research and the current study, indicate that only very few children consistently allowziji to be long-distance bound. Based on the suggestion thatziji is covertly local in nature and that long-distance binding is caused by the movement ofziji in Logical Form, two hypotheses concerning children's lack of long-distance binding were tested. Hypothesis 1 states that children moveziji to an adjoined non-argument position in Logical Form. However, since they do not have the ability to transfer referential features from a higher NP to a non-argument position, they do not have long-distance binding. Hypothesis 2 states that children do not moveziji in Logical Form. Sinceziji may only receive, its referential features from a local binder, a long-distance binder is not a possible antecedent for young children. The results of the current study do not totally confirm or disconfirm either hypothesis but raise several theoretical and empirical questions which each hypothesis must answer.

20 citations

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01 Aug 2012-Lingua
TL;DR: In this paper, a unitary syntactic and interpretative account of nominal ellipsis in Romanian DPs is presented, which is a double trope, involving both anaphoricity and contrastivity.

20 citations


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