In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent). In...
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In rhetoric, an anaphora (Greek: ἀναφορά, "carrying back") is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring...
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Parallelism may be accompanied by other figures of speech such as antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symploce. Compare the following examples:...
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usingenglish.com. White Smoke. Retrieved 20 May 2008. Nordquist, Richard. "Anaphora". grammar.about.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 20...
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Ellipsis (linguistics) (redirect from Null complement anaphora)
ellipsis Sluicing Nominal ellipsis Comparative deletion Null complement anaphora Among experts, there is no unanimity that all of the abovementioned syntaxes...
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Donkey sentence (redirect from Donkey anaphora)
California: CSLI Publications, 1999. Conway, L. and S. Crain. 'Donkey Anaphora in Child Grammar'. In Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS)...
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C-command (section Definite Anaphora)
Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as a key component of her theory of anaphora. The term is short for "constituent command". Common terms to represent...
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Gerhard Jäger (2005). Anaphora and Type Logical Grammar. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-3904-1. Glyn Morrill (2010). Categorial Grammar: Logical Syntax, Semantics...
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linguistic term that is closely related to antecedent and pro-form is anaphora. Theories of syntax explore the distinction between antecedents and postcedents...
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accurately, pragmatically determined) word order extensive use of null anaphora (pro-drop phenomena) syntactically discontinuous expressions However, it...
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reference (anaphora), where two different parts of the sentence must agree with each other in some way. These can be readily expressed in W-grammars. (See...
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Combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) is an efficiently parsable, yet linguistically expressive grammar formalism. It has a transparent interface between...
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A list of phenomena in syntax. Anaphora Agreement Answer ellipsis Antecedent-contained deletion Binding Case Clitics Control Coreference Differential Object...
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hierarchy. Link grammar is similar to dependency grammar, but dependency grammar includes a head-dependent relationship, whereas link grammar makes the head-dependent...
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Comparative (category Grammar)
coordination and forms of ellipsis (gapping, pseudogapping, null complement anaphora, stripping, verb phrase ellipsis). The interaction of the various mechanisms...
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determine which words ("mentions") refer to the same objects ("entities"). Anaphora resolution is a specific example of this task, and is specifically concerned...
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wording is used successively at the end of them. It is the combination of anaphora and epistrophe. It derives from the Greek word, meaning "interweaving"...
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Government and binding theory (redirect from Grammar and binding)
"the dog" or "John") are referential expressions: unlike pronouns and anaphora, they independently refer, i.e., pick out entities in the world. In sentence...
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made notable contributions to the theories of word order, locality and anaphora. Locality Principles in Syntax (1978). Dordrecht: Foris. Domains and Dynasties...
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Government (linguistics) (redirect from Government (grammar))
Transformational grammar: From rules to principles and parameters. London: Edward Arnold. Reinhart, T. 1976. The syntactic domain of anaphora. Doctoral dissertation...
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Pro-drop language (redirect from Null anaphora)
part of the larger topic of zero or null anaphora. The connection between pro-drop languages and null anaphora relates to the fact that a dropped pronoun...
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Deixis exists in all known natural languages and is closely related to anaphora, with a sometimes unclear distinction between the two. In linguistic anthropology...
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the end of a clause and then at the beginning of its succeeding clause. Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses...
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English language (section Grammar)
Cohesion between sentences is achieved through the use of deictic pronouns as anaphora (e.g. that is exactly what I mean where that refers to some fact known...
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Learner Oxford University Press Yule, G. (1979) Pragmatically controlled anaphora Lingua 49: pages 127-35 Yule, G. (1985/2020) The Study of Language (1st/8th...
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the flow of information, and universal grammar Syntax and Semantics, Vol 29, 109-160 1997. C Roberts. Anaphora in intensional contexts 1996. C Roberts...
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a question?" or "Does anyone have a question?", depending on context. Anaphora (linguistics) – Use of an expression whose interpretation depends on context...
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Inalienable possession (redirect from Alienability (grammar))
That hypothesis, however, does not account for verbs allowing reflexive anaphora (Jean se lave 'Jean washes himself'). To account for the grammaticality...
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similarity Question answering Machine translation Anaphora resolution Lambek calculus Pregroup grammar Distributional semantics Principle of compositionality...
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