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The Syntax of Anaphora
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Ken Safir
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 1412
Authors: Marcel den Dikken
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Yan Huang
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlyi
Anaphora in Generative Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Thomas Wasow
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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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
Anaphors in Text
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Monika Schwarz-Friese
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various l