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Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 1412
Pages: 1412
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various dire
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlyi
Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various l