Anaphora in Generative Grammar
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1979
X, 181 pages
978-90-272-7127-3 (ISBN)
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Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements participating in an anaphoric relation and to determine correctly the meaning of the anaphor on the basis of meaning of the antecedent. If a grammar is to reflect the linguistic competence of a native speaker of a language, it must include mechanisms of associating anaphor and antecedent. In this volume the following questions will be considered: What sorts of mechanisms are best suited for representing anaphora in a grammar? What are the conditions on the rule(s) associating anaphors with antecedents? Do the various cases of anaphora form a linguistically significant class of phenomena, and, if so, how can the grammar capture this fact? And what do these answers entail for linguistic theory?
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Content
- ANAPHORA IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- Chapter One. BACKGROUND
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Goals
- 2. Extrinsic Factors
- 3. Assumptions
- NOTES
- PART I. Pronominal Anaphora
- Chapter 2. THE PRONOMINALIZATION AND REFLEXIVIZATION TRANSFORMATIONS
- 1. History
- 2. Arguments Against Pronominalization
- 3. Reflexivization
- 4. Anapornia
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTES
- Chapter 3. ALTERNATIVES TO PRONOMINALIZATION
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The Lexical Substitution Approach
- 2. The Interpretive Approach
- 3. Choosing an Alternative
- 4.0 The Transitivity Condition
- NOTES
- Chapter 4. THE PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA RULE
- 1. Past Proposals
- 2. Revisions of Past Proposals
- 3. Ordering
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- PART II. Other Anaphoric Relations
- Chapter 5. THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF ANAPHORA
- 1. Shared Properties
- 2. Differences Between Anaphora Rules and Other Rules
- 3. Conclusion
- NOTES
- Chapter 6. AN ALTERNATIVE TO DELETION
- 1. The Nonexpansion Hypothesis and Its Shortcomings
- 2. An Alternative
- 3. Further Arguments for the Empty Structures Hypothesis
- 4. Non-null Anaphors
- 5. Differences Between Null and Non-null Anaphors
- 6. Conclusion
- NOTES
- Chapter 7. THE STATUS OF EQUI
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Two Approaches to Equi
- 2. Choosing Between the Theories
- 3. Conclusion
- NOTES
- Chapter 8. CONCLUSIONS
- 1. Summary
- 2. Form vs. Function
- 3. Formalization
- 4. A Speculation
- NOTES
- Appendix I. THE BACH-PETERS PARADOX AND KARTTUNEN'S ARGUMENT
- NOTES
- Appendix II. POSTAL'S WH-CONSTRAINT
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The Facts
- 2. An Analysis
- 3. Postal's Analysis
- 4. Summary
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
