Associative anaphora and its interpretation

Charolles, Michel

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(98)00070-8

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“…Here, referential interpretation implies that the addressee establishes what referent in the model it should be related to. For such uses, in English examples, the definite determiner entails that the entity referred to by the NP serving as a trigger is not only connected coreferentially, but also salient (Charolles 1999). In the case of LSC, the NP serving as an antecedent to the associative limb classifier does not provide direct access to the referent; it only provides a pointer leading to it following an inferential and accommodation procedure.…”

Section: Licensing the Identity Equation And Associative Anaphoramentioning

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Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives

Barberà

Quer

2018

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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Bringing together the areas of dynamic semantics and signed discourse, this article focuses on the dynamic potential of referring expressions, such as semantic and limb classifiers, and role shift constructions. On the basis of the Catalan Sign Language version of the Aesop’s fables, a qualitative analysis is presented, which focuses on the interaction between referring expressions and the accessibility scale. While the incorporation of semantic and limb classifiers constructions into the accessibility hierarchy leads to a more fine-grained analysis, role shift also reveals itself as an essential mechanism to associate the classifier handshape to the corresponding discourse referent. Dynamic operations are taken into account with the main aim of offering a novel proposal on discourse accessibility structure in signed narrative discourse.

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Section: Licensing the Identity Equation And Associative Anaphoramentioning

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Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives

Barberà

Quer

2018

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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“…Bridging definite descriptions are a special type of definites in that they require hearers’ accommodation of the implied link between the bridging description and its anchor (the element that the bridging description is related to), which may be established in an arbitrary, indirect, and complex way (Charolles, 1999; Clark, 1977). Accommodating the relation between the bridging definite description and its anchor requires semantic and pragmatic information as well as various strategies (see Vieira & Poesio, 2001 for a discussion on bridging strategies).…”

Section: Different Types Of Definitesmentioning

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The acquisition of different types of definite noun phrases in L2-English

Cho

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and research questions: This study aims to investigate second language (L2) learnability in article acquisition from a feature-based contrastive approach by examining L1-Korean speakers’ comprehension of different types of definites in L2-English: anaphoric and non-anaphoric definites. English does not morphologically distinguish different kinds of definites but some languages do (e.g., Fering) (Schwarz, 2013). Korean, an article-less language, differentiates between the two types of definites by marking only one type (i.e., anaphoric) with the demonstrative ku ‘that’ (Chang, 2009). That is, the English definite article ‘the’ encodes [+definite, ±anaphoric] and the Korean demonstrative ‘ku’ encodes [+definite, +anaphoric]. Within the feature reassembly model (Lardiere, 2009), this difference in feature combinations between Korean and English is expected to influence L1-Korean learners’ interpretation of English articles. Methodology: An acceptability judgment task was used to assess L1-Korean L2-English learners (22 intermediate and 15 advanced) and 26 English native-speaker controls’ comprehension of different types of definites. Data: The intermediate group rated definites significantly higher than indefinites in anaphoric definite contexts but not in non-anaphoric definite contexts, indicating L1 influence. The advanced group rated definites higher than indefinites in non-bridging anaphoric contexts but not in bridging (anaphoric and non-anaphoric) contexts. This suggests that they have re-assembled the features associated with the definite article but have difficulty in accommodating unmentioned propositions for bridging definites. Conclusion: These findings suggest that presupposition accommodation for bridging definites may be another hurdle in article acquisition beyond feature reassembly. Originality/Significance: By focusing on the acquisition of the semantics of definites, exclusively, this study provides new data and information which enable us to come to a more precise and fine-grained understanding of learnability in article acquisition. Thus, the results of the study bring out new and insightful conceptual issues that open up new directions for future research on the acquisition of definiteness.

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“…In this example, the demonstrative NP ndéngé wâná 'that manner' in speaker B's intervention refers to the entirety of speaker A's prior remarks. Sentence (9) exemplifies what in the literature goes under a variety of labels, among which 'associative anaphora' (e.g., Charolles 1990Charolles , 1999, 'bridging (cross-reference) anaphora' (Clark 1977;Huang 2000), 'indirect anaphora' (Erkü & Gundel 1987;Schwarz 2000;Cornish et al 2005), and 'inferable anaphora' (Prince Thus, although the pragmatic capacity of yangó is limited to non-situational reference, it cannot be employed for every type of non-situational use. The unacceptability of sentences (10) and (11) shows that non-coreferential expression types, such as discourse deixis and associative anaphora, fall outside its realm.…”

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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu)

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Stroeken²

2022

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This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, óyo, wâná, and yangó in the Bantu language Lingala. An examination of natural language corpora reveals that, although native-speaker intuitions sanction the use of óyo as an anaphor in demonstrative NPs, this demonstrative is hardly ever used in that role. It also reveals that wâná, which has both situational and discourse-referential capacities, is used more frequently than the exclusively anaphoric demonstrative yangó. It is explained that wâná appears in a wide range of non-coreferential expression types, in coreferential expression types involving low-salience referents, and in coreferential expression types that both involve highly salient referents and include the speaker's desire to signal a shift in the mental representation of the referent towards a pejorative reading. The use of yangó, on the other hand, is only licensed in cases of coreferentiality involving highly salient referents and implying continuation of the same mental representation of the referent. A specific section is devoted to charting the possible grammaticalization paths followed by the demonstratives. Conclusions are drawn for pragmatic theory formation in terms of the relation between form (yangó vs. wâná) and function (coreferentiality vs. non-coreferentiality).

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Associative anaphora and its interpretation

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives

Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives

The acquisition of different types of definite noun phrases in L2-English

Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu)

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