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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 August 2000
- ISBN 9780198235286
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 235x157x22 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Anaphora is a central topic in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and to the interface between them. It is the subject of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and computational linguistics.
In this book, Yan Huang provides an extensive and accessible overview of the major contemporary issues surrounding anaphora and gives a critical survey of the many and diverse contemporary approaches to it. He also provides by far the fullest cross-linguistic account of anaphora yet published.
Long description:
Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of reference, anaphora, involves complicated cognitive and syntactic processes, which people usually perform unerringly, but which present formidable problems for the linguist and cognitive scientist trying to explain precisely how comprehension is achieved. Anaphora is thus a central research focus in syntactic and semantic theory, while understanding and modelling its operation in discourse are important targets in computational linguistics and cognitive science.
Yan Huang provides an extensive and accessible overview of the major contemporary issues surrounding anaphora and gives a critical survey of the many and diverse contemporary approaches to it. He provides by far the fullest cross-linguistic account yet published: Dr Huang's survey and analysis are based on a rich collection of data drawn from around 550 of the world's languages. Topics covered include binding and control, null subjects and objects, long distance reflexivisation, logophoricity, bridging-cross reference, switch-reference, and discourse anaphora.
Written by a leading expert on anaphora, the book will be the standard point of reference for all those interested in this important topic in theoretical linguistics. It will be a vital reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, on the interfaces between them, on linguistic typology, and on computational linguistics.
Huang took on the immense job not only of popularizing his own views but of discussing other people's ideas, and as a result the book provides a thorough retelling and critical analysis of a variety of approaches to anaphora ... Huang is a very conscientious critic ... Yan Huang's book makes an important contribution to the understanding of anaphora and related issues. It is also a very good reference source, enlightening those who have always wanted to know what, for example, "sluicing", "pseudo-gapping", or "return pop" means, but have not dared to ask. This book also comes handy for those functionalists who insufficiently familiar with formal theorizing about anaphora: at a relatively low cost, it gives them a fairly good idea of what they are rejecting.
Table of Contents:
Typologies of anaphora
Introduction
Typologies of anaphora
Anaphora and syntactic categories
Anaphora and truth-conditions
Anaphora and contexts
Anaphora and discourse: reference-tracking systems
Organisation of the book
Syntactic approaches to anaphora
Classical Chomskyan theory of anaphora
Typology of NPs
Binding theory
Control theory
Revisions and alternatives
Summary
Null subjects and null objects
Null subjects
Null objects
Summary
Long-distance reflexivisation
The phenomenon
Properties and theoretical issues
Long-distance reflexivisation in generative grammar
Summary
Conclusion
Semantic approaches to anaphora
VP-ellipsis
Definition and properties
Theoretical issues
Two general approaches: syntactically oriented versus semantically oriented
Summary
Binding and control: some semantic alternatives
Binding
Control
Summary
Logophoricity
Background
Logophoric pronouns in African languages
Long-distance reflexives in East Asian languages
Discourse representation
Summary
Conclusion
Pragmatic approaches to anaphora
A neo-Gricean pragmatic theory
A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora
The general pattern of anaphora
A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory
Application
Summary
Some other pragmatic/cognitive/functional approaches
Relevance theory
Accessibility theory
Prague School functionalism
Summary
'Syntactic' versus 'pragmatic': a new typology of language?
The pragmaticness of anaphora in a pragmatic language
The prominence of 'Chinese-style' topic constructions in a pragmatic language
Explaining the differences: parametric or typological?
Summary
Conclusion
Switch-reference and discourse anaphora
Switch-reference
The phenomenon
Switch-reference and related phenomena
Two general approaches and beyond: syntactically oriented versus semantically oriented, and perhaps pragmatically oriented
Summary
Discourse anaphora
The problem of anaphoric distribution in discourse
The topic continuity or distance-interference model
The hierarchy model
The cognitive model
The pragmatic model
Summary
Conclusion
Conclusions
Notes
References
Index of names
Index of languages and language families
Index of subjects
