Antecedent (grammar)

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

Anaphora, cataphora, exophora, logophoricity

Abstract: Anaphora refers to a relation between two linguistic elements, in which the interpretation of one (called an anaphor) is in some way determined by the interpretation of the other (called an antecedent). This essay first defines anaphora, cataphora, and exophora. It provides a critical survey of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to that type of intrasentential NP-anaphora known as binding. It then provides a typology of VP-anaphora, focusing on the properties, issues, and analyses of VP-ellipsis. Finally, it surveys the phenomenology of logophoricity.

Type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: do they share common antecedents?:

Abstract: It has been suggested that the association between type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease might result from a shared antecedent — the `common soil' hypothesis. The antecedent co...

Minimalism and French / /: Phonological representations in phonetically based phonology

Abstract: This paper examines the phonological structure of French rhotics and their treatment in a production grammar. Assuming emergent featural specification, it is argued that the underlying representation of /ʀ/ contains only values for sonorance, continuance and place of articulation. Grammatical analysis is undertaken in an Optimality Theoretic framework, where evaluation highlights the effect of effort reduction and perceptual augmentation on /ʀ/, also demonstrating that more richly specified segments are unaffected by these constraints. The proposal is shown to be compatible with antecedent analyses and data from regional forms and registers.

Biased learning system

Abstract: The invention permits various types of background knowledge for a concept learning system to be represented in a single formal structure known as an antecedent description grammar. A user formulates background knowledge for a learning problem into such a grammar, which then becomes an input to a learning system, together with training data representing the concept to be learned. The learning system, constrained by the grammar, then uses the training data to generate a hypothesis for the concept to be learned. Such hypothesis is in the form of a set of logic clauses known as Horn clauses.

A test of the immunoreactive theory of the origin of neurodevelopmental disorders: Is there an antecedent brother effect?

Abstract: Gualtieri and Hicks (1985) proposed that male vulnerability to neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs) could be explained by maternal immune attack on the male fetus, especially among children whose mothers had previously conceived boys as opposed to girls. This antecedent brother effect was attributed to the build‐up of maternal antibodies against previous male fetuses. Our sample consisted of 11,578 mother‐child pairs who were followed up until 7 years old. For only one ND—mental retardation—was there a true antecedent brother effect: Mentally retarded boys were significantly more likely to have antecedent brothers than sisters, whereas mentally retarded girls did not show this effect. Moreover, the incidence of mental retardation was elevated significantly among boys with at least two, as opposed to one, antecedent brothers. This did not occur among boys with antecedent sisters or in girls irrespective of antecedent sibling gender or number. This supports Gualtieri and Hicks's immunoreactive theory for the ...