Anaphora in generative grammar / Thomas Wasow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasow, Thomas.

Series:

Sigla Anaphora in generative grammar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Anaphora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

x, 181 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?.

Contents:

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

Chapter 3. ALTERNATIVES TO PRONOMINALIZATION

1. The Lexical Substitution Approach

2. The Interpretive Approach

3. Choosing an Alternative

4.0 The Transitivity Condition

Chapter 4. THE PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA RULE

1. Past Proposals

2. Revisions of Past Proposals

3. Ordering

4. Conclusion

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

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

Chapter 7. THE STATUS OF EQUI

1. Two Approaches to Equi

2. Choosing Between the Theories

Chapter 8. CONCLUSIONS

1. Summary

2. Form vs. Function

3. Formalization

4. A Speculation

Appendix I. THE BACH-PETERS PARADOX AND KARTTUNEN'S ARGUMENT

Appendix II. POSTAL'S WH-CONSTRAINT

1. The Facts

2. An Analysis

3. Postal's Analysis

4. Summary

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-272-7127-5

OCLC:

851161617