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Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 041572354X
ISBN13: 9780415723541
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 21 2013
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Referring expressions are defined as markers signalling the degree of Accessibility in memory of the antecedent. This analysis yields an astonishing array of new results. The precise distribution of referring expressions in actual discourse is directly predicted. Several universals of anaphoric relations are stated. Thus, although not all languages necessarily have the same markers, and nor do they assign them precisely the same function, Ariel shows that they all obey the same Accessibility marking hierarchy.

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