Anaphora in Generative Grammar.

Anaphora in Generative Grammar.

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 part...

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Main Author: Wasow, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1979.
Subjects:
Generative grammar.
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Generative grammar
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Table of 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
  • 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.

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