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Quezada-Pulido, Wilfredo. "Anaphora, meaning and representation." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/anaphora-meaning-and-representation(3d523a71-59d8-42a4-80ce-b60f2b00c25f).html.
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Wolska, Magdalena, and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová. "Modeling anaphora in informal mathematical dialogue." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1045/.
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We analyze anaphoric phenomena in
the context of building an input understanding
component for a conversational
system for tutoring mathematics.In this paper, we report the results of data analysis of two sets of corpora of dialogs on mathematical theorem proving. We exemplify anaphoric phenomena, identify factors relevant to anaphora resolution in our domain and extensions to the input interpretation component to support it.
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Elworthy, David Alan Howard. "The semantics of noun phrase anaphora." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260609.
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Huang, Yan. "Anaphora in Chinese : towards a pragmatic analysis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276198.
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Eslami, Rasekh Abbass 1955. "An investigation into discourse anaphoric relations : on the role of contextual information in anaphor resolution." Monash University, Dept. of Linguistics, 1997. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7650.
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Wu, Guobin. "A discourse structural approach to anaphora in Chinese." Thesis, University of York, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10806/.
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Zhu, Shensheng 1952. "A dynamic semantic theory of Chinese anaphora." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288751.
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The distribution and reference of Chinese anaphors are not predetermined by their inherent binding features or by a set of rules from one particular module; rather they are determined by the discourse context in which the anaphor in question occurs. The two most important parameters of discourse context are the discourse topic NP and discourse relations. The discourse topic NP is a unique discourse entity in that it is the only accessible antecedent for such anaphors as exempt reflexives, null subjects and null objects. A discourse topic NP derives its discourse dynamics (i.e., its ability to bind an anaphor beyond its syntactic binding domain) from the structural prominence accorded to it by its syntactic position. The relevance of discourse relations is two-fold. On one hand, the status of an NP as discourse topic is determined relative to the discourse relation underlying the discourse context in which this NP occurs. On the other, discourse relations are a decisive factor in defining the domain of discourse binding. More specifically, a discourse topic NP alpha is accessible to an anaphor beta only when alpha and beta are within a discourse of Continuation. The dynamics of the discourse topic NP and the effect of discourse relations on binding can be satisfactorily treated by Dynamic Montague Grammar with its two formal features: dynamic conjunction and the state switcher. The application of dynamic conjunction to the constituent sentences of a discourse of Continuation reveals associative nature of such a discourse while the state switcher provides a formal means of making a discourse topic NP an available antecedent for the appropriate anaphors within the desired domain of dynamic binding.
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Tanaka, Izumi. "The value of an annotated corpus in the investigation of anaphoric pronouns, with particular reference to backwards anaphora in English." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322853.
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Cox, Clive John. "A graph-theoretic approach to the semantics of discourse and anaphora." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307724.
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Botley, Simon Philip. "Corpora and discourse anaphora : using corpus evidence to test theoretical claims." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322510.
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Geluykens, Ronald. "The pragmatics of discourse anaphora in English : evidence from conversational repair." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359356.
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Ntelitheos, Dimitrios. "A constraint hierarchy approach to the different distribution of reflexives in English and Greek." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B2347290x.
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Balogh, Jennifer Elaine. "Pronouns, prosody, and the discourse anaphora weighting approach /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3112198.
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Parfitt, Shan Helen. "Explorations in anaphora resolution in artificial neural networks : implications for nativism." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267247.
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Diderichsen, Philip. "Cross recurrence quantification analysis of indefinite anaphora in Swedish dialog : an eye-tracking pilot experiment." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1038/.
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A new method is used in an eye-tracking
pilot experiment which shows that it is
possible to detect differences in common
ground associated with the use of
minimally different types of indefinite
anaphora. Following Richardson and
Dale (2005), cross recurrence quantification
analysis (CRQA) was used to
show that the tandem eye movements of
two Swedish-speaking interlocutors are
slightly more coupled when they are using
fully anaphoric indefinite expressions
than when they are using less anaphoric
indefinites. This shows the potential of
CRQA to detect even subtle processing
differences in ongoing discourse.
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Pan, Junlin 1957. "Occurrence/nonoccurrence, distribution, and interpretation of zero anaphora in Chinese conversational discourse." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282125.
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This study investigates the occurrence/nonoccurrence, distribution, and interpretation of zero anaphora (ZA) in Chinese conversational discourse. It explores three major questions: (1) what factors account for the occurrence of ZA, and the nonoccurrence of ZA in potential positions; (2) whether there are differences in occurrence and nonoccurrence by genre and style; and (3) what linguistic research approaches are most appropriate for the analysis of ZA in Chinese. The database consists of complete dialogues from the two-hour Chinese film, Li, Shuang-shuang, and an uninterrupted one-hour recording of spontaneous conversations among three adult Chinese speakers. The analysis employs a taxonomy adapted from Halliday and Hasan (1976), and Givon's (1989) discourse measures, and involves investigation of linguistic (syntactic and semantic) and extralinguistic (social and cultural) variables, and linear versus hierarchical discourse structure. Difference levels between the scripted and spontaneous conversations were assessed using independent t-tests and chi-square tests. The study revealed the following major findings. First, knowledge sources, linguistic and/or extralinguistic, that were shared by the conversational participants formed the basis for the occurrence of ZA; in the absence of adequate shared knowledge, ZA could potentially be used to attract attention by inviting clarification questions from addressees. Second, overt referents in positions of potential ZA had the function of enhancing referent saliency by specific means including rhetorical, interactional, and stylistic devices. Third, there were great differences between conversational data from this study and narrative discourse from prior research in the proportion of syntactically shifted ZA and in referential distance. Fourth, referent continuity was not subject to linear factors in hierarchical discourse structure. There was a statistically significant difference between the planned and unplanned conversations in: (1) clause type and discourse context in terms of event boundary, role, and person; and (2) referential distance, potential interference, and referential persistence. The overall results of the study revealed the highly variable nature of the ZA phenomenon in Chinese, which suggests the need for multiple perspectives in the analysis of ZA in typologically similar languages, and questions the adequacy of the Government and Binding Theory account of Empty Categories as a universal explanation for ZA.
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FREEMAN, DAVID EDWARD. "USE OF PRAGMATIC COHESION CUES TO RESOLVE DEGREES OF PRONOUN REFERENCE AMBIGUITY IN READING (ESL, BILINGUAL)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188185.
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The psycholinguistic theory of reading developed by Kenneth Goodman, which closely parallels the analysis-by-synthesis model of listening comprehension proposed by Cooper and Stevens, claims that readers use grapho-phonic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic cues to construct meaningful texts through cycles of sampling, inference, prediction, confirmation or disconfirmation and integration. Pragmatic cues are supplied in part by pronoun reference, which adds cohesion to texts. Evidence to support the psycholinguistic theory of reading comes from miscues, cases during oral reading when there is a difference between the reader's observed response and the expected response. The analysis of pronoun miscues provides insights into the text features and strategies readers use to assign reference. Five text features readers use to assign pronoun reference are preceding noun phrases, preceding pronouns, self-reference or direct address in dialog, the dialog carrier position, and paragraph-initial "I". Readers make significantly fewer miscues at sites where these cues are available than at other sites. For any story certain text features provide less ambiguous cues than others. However, a comparison of two stories suggests that there is no absolute hierarchy of pragmatic cues. Rather, the strength of a text feature depends on how it is realized in a particular text. Readers sometimes overgeneralize normally-successful strategies for assigning pronoun reference. Two types of overgeneralization are pronoun maintenance and topic maintenance, using a preceding pronoun or noun to assign reference when that pronoun or noun is not co-referential with the pronoun for which reference is being assigned. Patterns of correction of pronoun miscue reveal readers' tentativeness and scope of focus, two factors important for reading proficiency. Proficient readers are tentative and maintain a wide scope of focus. Correction of pronoun miscues, which frequently are disconfirmed pragmatically, requires a wide focus. In order to develop appropriate strategies for assigning reference, readers need frequent opportunities to transact with whole, cohesive texts. In addition, if readers are encouraged to read for meaning and given the chance to self-correct, they can develop the tentativeness and wide scope of focus characteristic of proficient readers.
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Barss, Andrew. "Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8833.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1986.Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, leaves 575-581).
This thesis is concerned with developing an account within the Government and Binding (GB) theory of the grammaticality of such structures as (1), and exploring the implications of this account for the theory of empty categories, chains, and scope. The hallmark characteristic of such grammatical S-Structure representations as (1) is that the anaphor is outside the c-command domain of its understood antecedent. The basic anaphoric effect is termed connectivity. 1) [which of each other's friends][did the men see t]? Chapter 1 is a brief overview of the necessary definitions presumed in the thesis, and an outline of the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 introduces a large body of data which must be treated on a par with (1), and reviews and criticizes several existing proposals which have been made to account for (1). The chapter argues that the binding theory must apply to structures having the essential form of (1). We demonstrate that no treatment which involves lowering the anaphor into the c-command domain of the antecedent via "reconstruction" operations, or involves applying the Binding Theory at a level at which WH movement is not represented, can be maintained. Chapter 3 develops a revision of the binding theory, focusing on Condition A, which is capable of treating all the connectivity data in a unified way. The major formal construct proposed in the chapter is the chain accessibility sequence, essentially a path of nodes through which the potential antecedents for an expression are accessed. The revised binding theory is defined in terms of such sequences; as the name implies, the notion chain plays a prominent role. This approach to connectivity is developed in the spirit of the Path theory of Kayne (1983) and Pesetsky (1982). We also discuss properties of structures of the form of {l), but where the constituent containing the anaphor is predicative in nature. We shall see that the predicative nature of the constituent significantly constrains the possibilities of assigning the anaphor an antecedent. This chapter adopts, and argues in favor of, the Linking theory of binding introduced by Higginbotham (1983). Chapter 4 focuses on the theory of empty categories, arguing that it is desirable to construct the theory so that no empty categories bear binding features (the features[+/- anaphoric] and[+/- pronominal] are thus restricted to overt categories). This proposal, which I term the No Features Hypothesis, departs from the characteristic treatment of ECs in GB theory. The chapter adopts Brody's (1985) proposals concerning the distribution of PRO and NP-trace. We adopt, and later extend, the Local Binding Condition (LBC) on A chains, argued by Rizzi (1982) to constrain the well-formedness of A chains. We reformulate it in terms of Linking theory, as the Chain Obviation Condition (CCC), and argue that it holds of all chain types. This is shown to be a principle with considerable generality, subsuming the LBC, Condition C of the binding theory, and the anti-c-command condition on linking. Adopting the COC, along with the NFH, allows the elimination of the class R-expression from the inventory of binding types. It will be shown that the anti-c-command condition on parasitic gaps derives directly from the CCC, with no stipulations. The chapter concludes with a defense of the proposal that the theory of anaphora must recognize anaphoric dependence and obviation as separate relations (as argued by Lasnik (1976), (1981), and Higgginbotham (1985)). Chapter 5 discusses constraints on the interpretation of sentences in which a quantificational NP is the antecedent of an NP-trace which it does not c-command. These considerations lead us to formulate a constraint on movement operations. The chapter also argues that the operations of WH-movement and QR are strictly ordered in the LF component.
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Ainola, Tiina. "(Dis)continuité référentielle en contexte dialogal. L'emploi du pronom personnel anaphorique après les séquences dialoguées." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030175.
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La thèse porte sur l’emploi des pronoms personnels anaphoriques sujets dans le récit faisant suite à des séquences dialoguées. Elle est fondée sur un corpus de 370 extraits de romans français du XIXème siècle qui ont été systématiquement annotés. Le point de vue général adopté est tiré des travaux linguistiques et psycholinguistiques sur la référence et l’anaphore, il prévoit que l’assignation du référent au pronom se fait par l’intermédiaire de la représentation mentale construite par les lecteurs au cours du traitement du discours. Dans les extraits étudiés, les expressions référentielles renvoyant à des personnages ont été systématiquement annotés, en particulier les pronoms de troisième personne et les pronoms de dialogue, ainsi que les formes vides dans les phrases attributives de discours rapporté quand celles-ci sont ellipsées. La forme et la fonction des expressions référentielles est prise en compte de même que l’enchaînement des répliques. Les référents sont annotés par des traits contextuels indépendants les caractérisant : +/– centre anticipateur dans la narration avant le dialogue, +/– sujet dans le discours cité et +/– locuteur de la dernière réplique, plus d’autres traits comme la différence de genre. Quatre grandes configurations sont distinguées et, à la suite, nous proposons une typologie des transitions en fonction de la (dis)continuité entre la narration, le discours citant et le discours cité. Les données tirées du corpus montrent que, parmi les traits pris en compte, ce sont les mentions du référent du pronom à la suite de la séquence dialoguée dans la narration avant le dialogue et la différence de genre entre les participants du dialogue qui influent le plus sur les transitions, ainsi que le statut du référent en tant que locuteur de la dernière réplique, plutôt que le fait qu’il soit sujet de la dernière proposition du discours citéThis thesis explores the use of anaphoric personal pronoun in the narration following dialogue in literary text. The study is based on a nearly four hundred dialogue passages borrowed from XIXth century French novels. We have adopted the point of view that pronoun resolution is guided by the mental representation being constructed during discourse processing. All the expressions referring to characters, as well as implicit speakers in the absence of a reporting clause have been annotated in the passages. Besides the linguistic properties of referents, our study also considers dialogue’s alternating structure. After studying separately several features caracterizing a referent, such as +/– gender difference, +/– mentions in the narration before the dialogue, +/– being subject in the dialogue and +/– being speaker of the last quote, their combinations in chains were presented. Based on four different types of chains, a typology of transitions by referential (dis)continuity between narration, reporting clause and direct speech has been proposed. Of the studied features, the transitions are most influenced by the mentions of a referent in the narration before the dialogue and by different gender of discourse participants, but also by the referent being the speaker of the last line of the dialogue, while the fact of being the subject in the direct speech has less importance
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Maduro, Ralph Moreira. "Analise sintatica para tratamento de elipse em orações coordenadas." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/276296.
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Orientador: Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni CarvalhoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação
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Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar o fenômeno lingüístico da elipse. Nós acreditamos que alguns tipos de elipse podem ser resolvidos com conhecimento sintático, visto que estão sujeitos a esse tipo de restrição. Nós tratamos cinco tipos de elipse encontrados na língua portuguesa: despojamento, elipse do sintagma verbal, elipse lacunar, escoamento e anáfora de complemento nulo. Usamos as Restrições de Ilha para decidir sobre a gramaticalidade da oração. Finalmente, desenvolvemos e implementamos um sistema baseado em sintaxe, que recupera o constituinte elidido e reconstrói a cláusula elíptica, quando permitido pelas restrições sintáticas. Os dados obtidos com este trabalho são relativos ao português, mas nós acreditamos que possam ser aplicados para outras línguas, como por exemplo inglês e espanhol
Abstract: This work is intended as an investigation into elliptical phenomena in natural language. We believe that some types of ellipsis can be resolved at the syntactic leveI since they are subject to syntactic constraints. We have dealt with five of the major types of ellipsis I faund in Portuguese, namely: Null VP, Gapping, Stripping, Sluicing and Null Complement Anaphora. We have used Island Constraints in order to decide on the grammaticality at the sentence. Finally, we have developed and implemented a syntactically-based algorithm that recovers the elided constituents and reconstructs the elliptical clause, when applicable. The linguistic data in this work is drawn primarily from Portuguese, but we believe that the results can also be applied to other languages, such as English
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Silva, Teresa Maria Silva e. "Aspecto da anáfora encapsuladora em redações de estudantes universitários." Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Linguística da UFBA, 2009. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/10953.
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Esta pesquisa tem como propósito refletir sobre o fe nômeno da anáfora, tendo como recorte a anáfora encapsuladora, a partir do funcionamento de itens anafóricos identificados nos textos do gênero dissertativo. A presente investigação se apóia na Lingüística Textual, considerando os trabalhos já desenvolvidos pelos teóricos Apothéloz (1995), Marcuschi e Koch (2002) e Heine (2000). Esta hipótese de trabalho orienta-se por considerar o texto como objeto particular da investigação lingüística, por ser ele a forma específica de manifestação da linguagem. A anáfora encapsuladora nesse estudo será entendida como um tipo de expressão referencial que sumariza uma porção textual (ou o discurso) e não será considerada como um referente na acepção clássica, pontual que postula uma relação de correspondência entre itens textuais. Dessa forma, a anáfora no presente trabalho, tende a uma concepção mais ampla do termo anafórico, considerando que a anáfora encapsuladora recupera porções textuais que serão ou que já estão sinalizadas no co(n)texto. Assim, a anáfora encapsuladora pode ter seu funcionamento na rotulação, sumarização ou recuperação do discurso.
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Patterson, Clare. "The role of structural and discourse-level cues during pronoun resolution." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/7128/.
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Pronoun resolution normally takes place without conscious effort or awareness, yet the processes behind it are far from straightforward. A large number of cues and constraints have previously been recognised as playing a role in the identification and integration of potential antecedents, yet there is considerable debate over how these operate within the resolution process. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the parser handles multiple antecedents in order to understand more about how certain information sources play a role during pronoun resolution. I consider how both structural information and information provided by the prior discourse is used during online processing. This is investigated through several eye tracking during reading experiments that are complemented by a number of offline questionnaire experiments.
I begin by considering how condition B of the Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981; 1986) has been captured in pronoun processing models; some researchers have claimed that processing is faithful to syntactic constraints from the beginning of the search (e.g. Nicol and Swinney 1989), while others have claimed that potential antecedents which are ruled out on structural grounds nonetheless affect processing, because the parser must also pay attention to a potential antecedent’s features (e.g. Badecker and Straub 2002). My experimental findings demonstrate that the parser is sensitive to the subtle changes in syntactic configuration which either allow or disallow pronoun reference to a local antecedent, and indicate that the parser is normally faithful to condition B at all stages of processing. Secondly, I test the Primitives of Binding hypothesis proposed by Koornneef (2008) based on work by Reuland (2001), which is a modular approach to pronoun resolution in which variable binding (a semantic relationship between pronoun and antecedent) takes place before coreference. I demonstrate that a variable-binding (VB) antecedent is not systematically considered earlier than a coreference (CR) antecedent online. I then go on to explore whether these findings could be attributed to the linear order of the antecedents, and uncover a robust recency preference both online and offline. I consider what role the factor of recency plays in pronoun resolution and how it can be reconciled with the first-mention advantage (Gernsbacher and Hargreaves 1988; Arnold 2001; Arnold et al., 2007). Finally, I investigate how aspects of the prior discourse affect pronoun resolution. Prior discourse status clearly had an effect on pronoun resolution, but an antecedent’s appearance in the previous context was not always facilitative; I propose that this is due to the number of topic switches that a reader must make, leading to a lack of discourse coherence which has a detrimental effect on pronoun resolution.
The sensitivity of the parser to structural cues does not entail that cue types can be easily separated into distinct sequential stages, and I therefore propose that the parser is structurally sensitive but not modular. Aspects of pronoun resolution can be captured within a parallel constraints model of pronoun resolution, however, such a model should be sensitive to the activation of potential antecedents based on discourse factors, and structural cues should be strongly weighted.Pronomenauflösung erfolgt normalerweise scheinbar mühelos und ohne bewusste Anstrengung. Jedoch ist die Verarbeitung von pronominalen Referenzen aus linguistischer Sicht ein hochkomplexer Prozess. Durch unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche Studien wurden bereits zahlreiche Faktoren ermittelt, die bei der Pronomenauflösung eine Rolle spielen, allerdings herrscht weitgehend noch keine Einigkeit darüber, wie genau diese Faktoren die Verarbeitung von Pronomen beeinflussen. Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es zu untersuchen, wie der Leser/Hörer mit Pronomen umgeht, denen mehrere Antezedenten zugeordnet werden können, um zu verstehen, welche Rolle bestimmte Informationsquellen in der Verarbeitung von Pronomen spielen. Besondere Beachtung findet dabei, wie strukturelle Eigenschaften sowie Informationen aus dem vorangegangenen Diskurs für die Suche nach einem passenden Antezedenten benutzt werden. Die angewandte Untersuchungsmethode der vorliegenden Dissertation ist Eye-tracking during reading, ergänzt mit verschiedenen offline-Fragebögen. Die Experimente erforschen die Rolle der folgenden Aspekte in der Verarbeitung von Pronomen: Prinzip B der Bindungstheorie (Chomsky 1981; 1986), Koreferenz und Variablenbindung laut der Primitives of Binding Hypothese (Reuland 2001, Koornneef 2008), Antezedentenreihenfolge im Satz, und Diskursstatus des Antezedents. Obwohl es zeigt sich, dass der Hörer/Leser sensibel für subtile Veränderungen in der syntaktischen Konfiguration ist, wie z.B. für die Reihenfolge der Antezedenten im Satz und für den Diskursstatus des Antezedenten, gibt es keinen Nachweis dafür, dass Variablenbindung zeitlich vor Koreferenz erfolgt. Einige Aspekte der Auflösung pronominaler Referenzen können in einem parallel constraints model erfasst werden, allerdings sollte so ein Modell strukturelle Informationen stark gewichten und sensitiv sein für die Aktivierung potenzieller Antezedenten aufgrund von Diskursfaktoren.
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Zushi, Mihoko. "Long-distance dependencies." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28974.
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This thesis proposes a modification of Chomsky's (1992) theory of locality to deal with restructuring phenomena which allow an apparent violation of the locality condition on certain local processes. Various restructuring phenomena including long-distance NP movement exemplified by long-distance Object Preposing (Chapter 2) and long-distance head movement exemplified by clitic climbing (Chapter 3) are examined cross linguistically. Long-distance anaphora (Chapter 4) are also examined based on the view the locality on various types of anaphor-antecedent relationships follow from the theory of movement.It is argued that the peculiar behavior of restructuring constructions in terms of locality follows from the lexical properties of restructuring verbs that allows a defective Tense to occur in the complement clause. The following effects result: (i) Case checking within the embedded clause becomes impossible; (ii) the defective Tense triggers incorporation of the infinitive verb into the matrix verb. As a result, the embedded element that requires Case is forced to raise into the matrix clause as a last resort operation, hence motivation long-distance movement.
In order to reconcile long-distance movement with the economy principle which requires chain links to be minimal, this thesis refines Chomsky's (1992) theory of locality. The proposed hypothesis claims that the locality condition on certain operations such as NP movement and head movement follows from the economy principle in such a way that an element can move to the closest position in which its morphological requirement can be satisfied. This notion of the shortest movement is further clarified in that the domain in which the shortest movement requirement is satisfied can be extended if there is an appropriate linked chain formed by head movement. The proposed system not only provides principled account for the phenomena of restructuring, but also has some important implications for the notion of economy of derivation.
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Sohng, Hong Ki. "Topics in the syntax of East Asian languages : long-distance anaphora and adverbial case /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8376.
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Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Alejandra. "Dependencia Contextual e Interpretación: Demostrativos y Pronombres en Español." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276893199.
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Pagmar, David. "Noun Phrase Anaphora and Referential Behaviour in Child-Directed Speech During the Child’s First Year." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118598.
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“Anaphora” is a label used for a referential expression that connects one entity (e.g. a pronoun) to another previously established entity (e.g. a proper name). The previously established entity is called an antecedent. The use of anaphora will, in this study, be referred to as referential behaviour. The study was based around audio and video recordings of free play between a Swedish parent and his/her child. 10 parents and their children were recorded. The referential behaviour of the parents was analysed. The sessions took place when the children were 3, 6, 9 and 12 months old. Recent studies indicate that speech directed at children during a child's first six months contains a larger amount of pronouns than the speech directed at children between 6 and 12 months of age. The purpose of the study was to examine if the decline of pronouns was visible in Swedish child- directed speech, and to see how different types of anaphora appeared in the same speech. Correlations between the visible changes of different types of referential expressions were also examined. A drop in the use of anaphoric pronoun with an explicit antecedent was found for the last two ages, which confirmed the study’s hypothesis. The results were also compared to each child’s vocabulary development.
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Reig, Maria Asela. "Cross-Dialectal Variability In Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative And Pragmatic Study Of Null Objects In Mexican And Peninsular Spanish." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1205505344.
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Bürgel, Christoph. "Verallgemeinerungen in Sprache und Texten : Generalisierung, Globalisierung, Konzeptualisierung im Französischen /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014971132&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Nilsson, Kristina. "Hybrid Methods for Coreference Resolution in Swedish." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38395.
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Martin, Scott. "The Dynamics of Sense and Implicature." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377010890.
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Albuquerque, Rosangela Nieto de. "Alguns fatores lingüísticos que interferem na intelecção dos problemas matemáticos no ensino fundamental I." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2007. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=127.
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O presente trabalho é o resultado da análise de alguns problemas matemáticos dos livros didáticos e tem como objetivo identificar as causas da dificuldade de interpretação e intelecção dos problemas matemáticos pelos alunos que estão iniciando a leitura, na 1 série do Ensino Fundamental I. Nossa hipótese é que os fatores lingüísticos relativos aos enunciados dos problemas matemáticos interferem na sua compreensão, conforme a articulação entre os fenômenos da língua e a construção deste tipo textual. Buscamos, então, os estudos dos mecanismos enunciativos e de textualização. A metodologia deste estudo consiste na análise do texto, baseada nos estudos da lingüística textual, relativos ao nível semântico-pragmático-léxico da construção textual, tendo em vista a complexidade dos enunciados dos problemas matemáticos. Acreditamos que as estratégias textuais, as categorias de referenciação (endofórica, anafórica, catafórica e exofórica) e dos dêiticos (tempo, lugar e pessoa), são fatores lingüísticos, que, conforme a articulação na construção do enunciado, dificultam a intelecção e interpretação dos problemas matemáticos, sobretudo, pelos educandos que estão iniciando a leitura e, nesse período, apresentam dificuldades nas relações espaciais e temporais. A pesquisa compreendeu, basicamente, dois momentos fundamentais: a escolha dos problemas matemáticos, e a análise dos dados. Primeiramente buscamos, construir um instrumento metodológico para identificar e selecionar, através do corpus constituído, os problemas matemáticos, cuja construção do enunciado poderá induzir ao erro do educando na resolução do problema. Selecionamos fragmentos textuais, aleatoriamente, conforme a natureza da superfície textual, buscando alguns fatores lingüísticos que interferem na interpretação e intelecção dos problemas matemáticos, sem nos preocuparmos no entanto com a quantidade de problemas analisados. Posteriomente, partimos para a análise dos dados, fundamentada nas relações lingüísticas, e na questão de compreensão textual, considerando os aspectos sócio-culturais em que o educando está inserido. Propomos, pois, ao longo desta pesquisa, embora reconheçamos que não esgotamos o assunto, suscitar uma nova reflexão nos autores dos livros didáticos, na construção dos enunciados dos problemas matemáticos, que no nosso entender, facilitará a intelecção e interpretação dos problemas matemáticos aos alunos de 1 série do Ensino Fundamental I.The present work is the result of the analysis of some mathematical problems of didactic books, and has as objective identify the causes of the interpretation difficulty and intelection of the mathematical problems for the pupils who are initiating the reading, in first years of basic school. Our hypothesis is linguistic factors into the statments of the mathematical problems intervenes in the understanding, as the joint between the phenomon of the language and the construction of this text type. So we study, the enunciative mechanisms and textmake. The methodology of this study consists in the analysis of the text, based in studies of text linguistics, in the level semantic-pragmatic-lexicon in the text construction, in view of complexity of the statements of the mathematical problems. We believe that the text strategies, referencing categories (endofórica, anafórica, catafórica and exofórica) and the dêiticos (time, place and person), they are linguistic factors, in the construction of statement, they make difficult the understanding of the mathematical problems, over all, for the educating that are initiating reading, and show in this period special difficulties with space and secular relations. The research understood, basically, two basic moments: the choice of the mathematical problems, and the analysis of the informations. First, we search a methodological instrument to identify and select, through the corpus, mathematical problems, whose statement construction will be able to induce the educating to the error in resolution of the problem. We select text fragments, randomly, as the nature of the text surface, searching some linguistic factors that interven in the interpretation and understanding of the mathematical problems, without special about the amount of analyzed problems. Lately, we have analysed the research, buy the social-culture aspects whose the educating is inserted. We meant to reflect about the didatical book, that will be easier to the educating understand the statements of the mathematical problems of the first years of basic school
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Boivin, Marguerite. "Le marqueur ça : énonciation et discours /." Thèse, Québec : Université Laval, 1992. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Mémoire (M.A.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1992.Ce mémoire a été réalisé à l'UQAC dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en linguistique extensionné de l'Université Laval à l'UQAC. CaQCU Bibliogr.: f. [81]-86. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
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Gasparri, Luca. "Six Pieces on Linguistic Sameness." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0091.
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Le thème général de cette thèse est l’identité linguistique: la relation qui fait que différents éléments linguistiques comptent comme "un même élément" ou comme “identiques” même s'ils sont hétérogènes d'un point de vue interne ou présentent des propriétés de surface différentes. Je traite de six questions sur ce thème.Le chapitre 1 concerne les segments phonétiques. La phonétique traditionnelle modélise la parole continue comme une concaténation de segments discrets de durées temporelles non spécifiées. Cependant, au cours des dernières années, les idéalisations segmentales de la parole ont été remises en question par des approches éliminativistes à l’égard des segments phonétiques. Le chapitre tente de justifier la phonétique segmentale face aux arguments éliminativistes.Le chapitre 2 concerne les objets phonologiques. Les énoncés phonologiques quantifient sur les phonèmes, qui sont des entités controversées. Aucune ontologie standard n'accepte de les faire figurer parmi l’“ameublement du monde”. Par conséquent, se pose la question suivante: comment les énoncés de règles phonologiques parviennent-ils à recevoir les valeurs de vérité attendues ? Le chapitre propose d'aborder la question en appliquant le non-factualisme de Stephen Yablo aux objets phonologiques.Le chapitre 3 traite du problème type-token. Il existe plusieurs théories concurrentes de la relation spécifique désignée par le prédicat “est un token de”, tel qu’on l'emploie dans le domaine linguistique. La théorie dominante est que les tokens instancient les types, mais cette thèse fait face à plusieurs difficultés conceptuelles. S'appuyant sur des travaux antérieurs de Zoltan Szabó, le chapitre propose une nouvelle approche du problème type-token, basée sur l'idée que les sons et les inscriptions du langage représentent des formes phonologiques et orthographiques.Le chapitre 4 traite du comptage de mots. Selon certains, l'identité des mot-types dépend de leur similarité en matière d'attributs structurel-fonctionnels. Selon d'autres, l'identité des mot-types dépend de leur lignée historique-causale. Les deux cadres donnent lieu à des manière différentes de compter les mots. Lequel d'entre eux est métaphysiquement adéquat ? Le chapitre propose une théorie quiétiste du comptage de mots, en soutenant qu'il n'y a pas de réponse factuelle et non-théorique à la question de “combien de mot-types existent” dans un monde ou scénario linguistique.Le chapitre 5 porte sur un problème dans la théorie de l'anaphore. On pense habituellement que l'anaphore implique la coréférence. Ce principe général, cependant, semble être contredit par des phrases où un pronom non lié hors-citation dépend d'un antécédent dans une citation. Le chapitre soutient que les phrases présentant les caractéristiques décrites ci-dessus n'invalident pas le principe général, et articule une analyse des cas problématiques axée sur la notion de "saillance".Le chapitre 6 porte sur la coréférence de jure. La coréférence de jure est un type particulier de relation de coréférence qui a attiré beaucoup d'attention dans la littérature récente. Cependant, son autonomie par rapport à d'autres variétés de coréférence (notamment la coréférence accidentelle) et ses propriétés distinctives font l'objet de controverses. Le chapitre fournit une présentation systématique des motivations sous-jacentes à l'introduction de la notion de coréférence de jure et défend une approche conservatrice de sa relation avec la grammaire de la phrase: la distinction entre coréférence accidentelle et coréférence de jure est réelle mais invisible du point de vue de la structure linguistiqueThe overarching theme of this dissertation is linguistic sameness: the feature by which different bits of language are able to count “as a unit” or as “the same” even if they are internally heterogeneous or exhibit different surface properties. I pursue six issues within this theme.Chapter 1 is about phonetic segments. Mainstream phonetics models continuous speech as a concatenation of discrete, letter-sized segments of unspecified temporal duration. In recent years, however, segment-based idealizations of speech have been called into question by eliminativist approaches to phonetic segments. The chapter attempts to vindicate segmental phonetics in face of the eliminativist arguments.Chapter 2 is about phonological objects. Phonological statements quantify over phonemes, which are controversial particulars. No standard ontology accepts them as part of the furniture of the world. Hence, the question arises of how phonological statements manage to exhibit their perceived distribution of truth values. The chapter proposes to address the issue by applying Stephen Yablo’s non-factualism to phonological objects.Chapter 3 is about the type-token problem. There are competing accounts of what specific relation is designated by the predicate “is a token of” as applied to the linguistic domain. The mainstream view is that tokens instantiate types, but this thesis presents several conceptual difficulties. Building on previous work by Zoltan Szabó, the chapter proposes a novel approach to the type-token problem, one based on the notion that speech sounds and inscriptions represent phonological and orthographic forms.Chapter 4 is about word counting. According to some, word type identity is established by similarity in structural-functional attributes. According to others, word type identity is established by sameness of causal-historical lineage. The two frameworks yield competing word counting policies. Which of them is metaphysically adequate? The chapter articulates a quietist take on word counting, one arguing that there is no non-theoretical fact of the matter about “how many word types exist” in any given language-infused world or scenario.Chapter 5 is about a puzzle in the theory of anaphora. Anaphoric dependency is commonly thought to entail coreference. This mainstream principle, however, appears to be violated by sentences where an off-quote unbound pronoun depends on an antecedent within closed quotation marks. The chapter argues that sentences exhibiting the described pattern do not invalidate the mainstream principle, and articulates a salience-based analysis of the problematic cases.Chapter 6 is about de jure coreference. De jure coreference is a peculiar kind of coreference relation that has attracted much attention in recent research. However, its autonomy from other varieties of coreference (most notably, accidental coreference) and its signature properties are the subject of controversy. The chapter provides a systematic presentation of the motivations underlying the introduction of de jure coreference, and defends a conservative account of its relationship to sentence grammar: the de jure vs. accidental divide is real but invisible from the standpoint of linguistic structure
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Park, Karen Elizabeth. "The selective properties of verbs in reflexive constructions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3154fd5f-a82c-4454-9679-cd3c5c7b0fb0.
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This dissertation investigates the relationship between verbs and reflexive markers within reflexive constructions, setting forth the hypothesis that the verb plays a determining role in anaphoric binding. The work builds upon Dalrymple’s (1993) argument that binding constraints are lexically specified by anaphoric elements and demonstrates that reflexive requirements can be lexically specified for distinct groups of verbs, an approach which offers another level of descriptive clarity to theories of anaphoric binding and introduces a means of predicting reflexive selection in domains where syntactic constraints do not readily apply. This is shown to be particularly pertinent in languages with more than one reflexive type that have overlapping syntactic binding domains. The hypothesis is substantiated by data from five typologically distinct languages: English, Dutch, French, Russian, and Fijian. Contributing to this data set, new empirical evidence in favour of previously unrecognized reflexive forms in the Fijian language is introduced in this work. Following Sells et al. (1987), it is demonstrated that reflexive constructions are definable over four different components of linguistic representation and a quadripartite linguistic analysis is, therefore, adopted that incorporates c-structure, f-structure, lexical structure, and semantic structure within a Lexical Functional Grammar theoretical framework. The level of semantic structure is found to be particularly interesting since the realization of a reflexive construction is shown to be influenced by differing semantic requirements between verbs and reflexives. On the basis of several semantic tests, verbs in reflexive constructions are shown to have two different predicate structure types, ‘transitive’ and ‘intransitive’, and reflexive markers are shown to have three different internal semantic structures, ‘strict’ (x,x), ‘close’ (x,f(x)), and ‘near’ (x,y). The syntactic, semantic, and lexical characteristics of the reflexives and verbs analyzed over the data set presented in this work result in the identification of eight different reflexive/verb types and the establishment of two implicational relationships: - Reflexive markers in lexically intransitive reflexive constructions have no semantic content.
- Verbs that take a reflexive argument with a strict (x,x) or close (x,f(x)) internal structure must be intransitive at the semantic component of linguistic structure.
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Porto, Edilma Messias. "As anáforas indiretas e a espontaneidade na produção textual dos aprendizes da educação profissionalizante." Pós-Graduação em Letras, 2013. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5686.
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The study of indirect anaphora leads to rethink the issue of anaphoric processes used in textual productions. The very coherence shall be taken as a principle of interpretation Marcuschi (2005) and, in the interim of this assertion, the indirect anaphoras are considered important in the construction of meanings and textual progression. The indirect anaphoras as noted Marcuschi (2005) have in cognitive processes and strategies to inferentially decisive basis in the activity of textualization. The use of anaphoric processes was also present in the texts constructed by the students in the classes of the course offered at the Youth Apprentice - Senac Sergipe. However, these uses occurred in different ways for young people with different levels of education. It is in this context that we seek the theoretical linguistics textual to discuss issues such as referencing objects of discourse, indirect anaphora, the anchor, the consistency considered important in the discussion of the use of process reference. Work guided by the points of view of Marcuschi (2005), Mondada; Dubois (2003), Koch (2009), Cavalcante (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) of the light reflected on such theoretical ratio between the greater or lesser use of anaphora and indirect schooling of learners. Before we draw primarily theoretical postulates some considerations on the historical linguistics Textual because we believe that some anaphoric processes are still in line with the theoretical discussions of the first and second phase of LT also opened space to discuss the notions of text, context and subject adopted in our work. Then we discuss the referral as discursive activity to reflect on it from the anaphora, specifically, indirect, beyond the role of anchors in the construction of coherence. In order for us are guided in identifying indirect anaphora in texts of learners adopts the proposed classificatory Marcuschi (2005) which was briefly discussed. Therefore, we point out the methodological steps followed for the analysis of texts and, finally, we analyze the productions of the learners in order to track the extent to which greater or lesser use of indirect anaphora is influenced by education level of the learners. In this context, this research is configured as qualitative, given the discursive analysis of the greater or lesser use of indirect anaphora in the corpus of the work.O estudo das anáforas indiretas leva a repensar a questão dos processos anafóricos utilizados nas produções textuais. A própria coerência passa a ser tida como um princípio de interpretação Marcuschi (2005) e, no interim dessa assertiva, as anáforas indiretas são consideradas importantes na construção dos sentidos e na progressão textual. As anáforas indiretas como lembra Marcuschi (2005) têm nos processos cognitivos e nas estratégias inferenciais a base decisiva na atividade de textualização. O uso de processos anafóricos também se fez presente nos textos construídos pelos estudantes nas aulas do curso Adolescente Aprendiz ofertado no Senac-Sergipe. No entanto, esses usos aconteceram de distintas maneiras pelos jovens com diferentes graus de escolaridade. É nesse contexto que buscamos o aporte teórico da Linguística textual ao discutirmos questões como a referenciação, os objetos de discurso, a anáfora indireta, a âncora, a coerência considerados elementos importantes na discussão sobre o uso dos processos referencias. Trabalhamos norteados pelos pontos de vistas de Marcuschi (2005), Mondada; Dubois (2003), Koch (2009), Cavalcante (2010; 2011; 2012; 2013), à luz de tais teóricos refletimos sobre a relação entre o maior ou menor uso das anáforas indiretas e o grau de escolaridade dos aprendizes. Diante dos postulados teóricos traçamos primeiramente algumas considerações sobre o percurso histórico da Linguística Textual porque acreditamos que alguns processos anafóricos ainda estão em consonância com as discussões teóricas da primeira e da segunda fase da LT, além disso, abrimos espaço para discutirmos as noções de texto, contexto e sujeito adotadas em nosso trabalho. Em seguida, discutimos sobre a referenciação enquanto atividade discursiva para a partir disso refletirmos sobre as anáforas, especificamente, as indiretas, além do papel das âncoras na construção da coerência. No intuito de nos norteamos na identificação das anáforas indiretas nos textos dos aprendizes adotamos a proposta classificatória de Marcuschi (2005) que foi brevemente discutida. Por conseguinte, apontamos os passos metodológicos seguidos para a análise dos textos e, por fim, analisamos as produções dos aprendizes a fim de verificamos em que medida o maior ou menor uso das anáforas indiretas é influenciado pelo grau de escolaridade dos aprendizes. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa se configura como qualitativa, haja vista à análise discursiva do maior ou menor uso das anáforas indiretas nos corpus do trabalho.
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Coelho, Thiago Thomes. "Resolução de anafora pronominal em portugues utilizando o algoritmo de Lappin e Leass." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/276276.
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Orientador: Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni CarvalhoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação
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Resumo: Um dos problemas do processamento de língua natural é a resolução de anáforas, fenômeno que ocorre quando duas ou mais expressões de um texto se referem a uma mesma entidade do discurso. Diversos algoritmos foram propostos para fazer a identificação do antecedente anafórico de pronomes, como o algoritmo de Lappin e Leass (1994), Hobbs (1978) e Grosz et aI. (1995). A resolução de anáforas pode melhorar consideravelmente a qualidade do resultado em diversas aplicações de processamento de língua natural, como por exemplo a recuperação e extração de informações, geração automática de resumos, traduções automáticas, entre outros. A pesquisa envolvendo o processamento automático do português ainda é limitada, se comparada a outras línguas, como inglês, francês e espanhol. Este trabalho visa implementar e avaliar o algoritmo de Lappin e Leass para a resolução de anáforas pronominais em terceira pessoa e pronomes reflexivos e recíprocos, em português. O algoritmo é baseado em um sistema de pesos, atribuídos de acordo com a estrutura sintática da sentença, e utiliza apenas conhecimento sintático na resolução das anáforas
Abstract: One of the most challenging problems in naturallanguage processing is anaphora resolution. This phenomenon occurs when one or more expressions in a text refer to the same entity previously mentioned in the discourse. Several approaches to anaphora resolution have been proposed, such as Lappin e Leass' algorithm (1994), Hobbs (1978) and Grosz et aI. (1995). Anaphora resolution can improve significantly the performance of several naturallanguage processing applications, such as automatic translation and summarisation, among others. Research in automatic processing of Portuguese is still incipient, when compared with other languages such as English, Spanish or French. This work aims at developing and evaluating the Lappin and Leass' algorithm for third person, as well as reflexive and reciprocal pronoun resolution, in Portuguese. The algorithm relies on an weighting scheme assigned according to the syntactic structure of the sentence, and on syntactic knowledge to perform anaphora resolution
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Silva, Fernando José Vieira da 1986. "Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704.
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Santos, Miriã Soares dos. "A referenciação nos textos do gênero carta pessoal produzidos por alunos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14354.
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This research aims to analyze the referential process in personal letters written by students of the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) from two schools of the city of Guarulhos. From a universe of forty letters, we selected thirteen letters, which is the corpus of this dissertation. The theoretical basis of this study takes into account the Text Linguistics and the main authors in this field, such as Mondada & Dubois, Beaugrande, Teun van Dijk, Luiz Antonio Marcuschi, Jean Michel Adam, Cavalcante and Lima, Lima and Feltes, Apothelóz, Schwarz-Friesel, Morato, Koch, Elias, among others, referring to concepts of text and context, referential progression, frames, referents as discourse objects, and indirect anaphora. We also based our analyses in Bakhtin, with regard to the studies of genres. Studies on the referents are in the current agenda of the Text Linguistics and bring new perspectives to work with texts, as regards the production and comprehension. Specifically, we have analyzed the indirect anaphora as a phenomenon for the coherence construction and text progression, based in socio-cognitive context of the interlocutors in order to establish associations and / or inferences to keep the textual progression and for the construction of coherence. We seek to explore in this study mainly mental representations expressed in the texts that guarantee the textual progression through the adoption of two categories of analysis: Introduction of anchored and non-anchored referents, and Recategorisation of referents through reconstruction / reactivation , blurring / deactivation and packaging and labeling. The results showed that the texts produced by students of EJA are consistent and indirect anaphora ensured coherence and textual progression
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o processo de referenciação na construção de cartas pessoais por alunos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), do 6º. ao 9º. anos, de duas escolas da Rede Municipal de Guarulhos. Foram analisadas treze cartas produzidas por alunos da EJA, que compõem o corpus da pesquisa, de um universo de quarenta cartas no total. A base teórica deste estudo leva em consideração os teóricos da Linguística Textual (LT), como Mondada & Dubois, Beaugrande, Teun van Dijk, Luiz Antonio Marcuschi, Jean Michel Adam, Cavalcante & Lima, Lima e Feltes, Apothelóz, Schwarz-Friesel, Morato, Koch, Elias, entre outros, para os conceitos de texto e contexto, referenciação, coerência, frames ou enquadres e anáforas indiretas, além de Bakhtin no que se refere aos estudos dos gêneros textuais. Os estudos sobre a referenciação estão na agenda atual da LT e trazem novas perspectivas de trabalho com textos, no que se refere à produção e compreensão. Especificamente, tratou-se neste trabalho da análise das anáforas indiretas, que são elementos presentes no contexto sociocognitivo dos interlocutores e estabelecem associações e/ou inferências para manter a progressão textual e para a construção da coerência. Buscamos explorar neste estudo principalmente as representações mentais expressas nos textos que garantem a progressão textual, por meio da adoção de duas categorias de análise: Introdução de referentes de forma ancorada e não-ancorada, e Recategorização de referentes por meio de reconstrução/reativação, desfocalização/desativação e encapsulamento e rotulação. Os resultados das análises mostraram que os textos produzidos pelos alunos da EJA são coerentes e as anáforas indiretas garantiram a coerência e a progressão textual
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Bennett, Susan. "Second language acquisition of reflexive binding by native speakers of Serbo-Croatian." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41534.
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This thesis examines the role of transfer of first (L1) language properties and access to knowledge of Universal Grammar in second language (L2) acquisition. Two empirical components are included: a study of the syntax of anaphora in Serbo-Croatian and an experimental study of second language acquisition of reflexive binding. Data from field work on the coreference properties of anaphors in Serbo-Croatian are discussed in terms of standard, parameterized, LF movement, and Relativized SUBJECT approaches to Binding Theory. Recent versions of the theory identify a categorial distinction between morphologically simple ($ rm X sp circ$) and complex (XP) anaphor types as a crucial factor in determining coreference relations between reflexive pronouns and their syntactic antecedents.The predictions of a morphological approach to the Binding Theory were tested in a study of the acquisition of the binding properties of English XP reflexives by native speakers of Serbo-Croatian, a language with $ rm X sp circ$ reflexives. Acquisition of the English binding pattern by this group of L2 learners requires recognition of the morphological complexity of English reflexives. Prior to reanalysis, learners are predicted to produce an incorrect L1 coreference pattern in the L2 environment.
Two sentence comprehension tasks were administered to adolescent and adult Serbo-Croatian speaking L2 learners of English and similar groups of English native speaker controls. Picture identification and multiple choice comprehension tasks produced convergent results with significant differences between control (n = 47) and L2 learner (n = 73) interpretations of reflexives in complex noun phrases and object control infinitival sentences. Their pattern of interpretation shows evidence of transfer of the $ rm X sp circ$ anaphor type found in Serbo-Croatian to the target grammar and suggests L2 learners are able to apply a deductive system constrained by Universal Grammar to compute binding domains in second language acquisition.
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Rudberg, Tom. "Le futur en français : Une étude sur l'emploi du futur simple et futur périphrastique à l'oral." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157999.
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The general view by some linguists seems to be that the French simple future is often replacedby the periphrastic future in spoken language; a natural development characterized by anincrease of analytical forms at the expense of synthetic forms. However others claim that theusage of both simple and periphrastic future are still present in ordinary French, both havingdifferent implications. In this particular study, we examine the usage of simple future andperiphrastic future in the corpus ESLO2, which consist of transcripts of interviews andconversations from Orléans, France. We also examine some of the linguistic factors thatmight affect the usage of the two forms. Our hypothesis, based on previous literature andarticles treating the subject, being that the periphrastic future is used more frequently than thesimple future and that the traditional distinction between the two forms is not adequate inexplaining their usage in spoken French. The results of the study show that the periphrasticfuture is used more frequently than the simple form, and that there are linguistic factors thatcould explain their usage, however it is difficult to find unison explanations and furtherstudies are needed to conclude the factors behind the two forms.
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Rodriguez, Kepa Joseba. "Resources for linguistically motivated Multilingual Anaphora Resolution." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367836.
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An actual trend in the computational linguistics and natural language processing is the implementation of multilingual utilities for different tasks, like information retrival, summarization of documents in different languages or machine translation, tasks in which the resolution of anaphoric references plays a crucial role. This dissertation presents a proposal of annotation scheme for the creation of corpus resources for linguistic based multilingual anaphora resolution. This scheme has been implemented for the annotation of English and Italian data. Inter-annotator agreement studies show that the annotation scheme is relaiable. The annotated corpora have been used for the anaphora resolution task, and the results have been compared with well known corpora. Finally hand annotated linguistic features have been used to help in the anaphora resolution process. The results show that our multilingual annotation scheme proposal has been utilized to produce data useful to build anaphora resolution systems for languages with different grammatical and typological features, like English and Italian.
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Rodriguez, Kepa Joseba. "Resources for linguistically motivated Multilingual Anaphora Resolution." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2010. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/439/1/PhD-Rodriguez.pdf.
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An actual trend in the computational linguistics and natural language processing is the implementation of multilingual utilities for different tasks, like information retrival, summarization of documents in different languages or machine translation, tasks in which the resolution of anaphoric references plays a crucial role. This dissertation presents a proposal of annotation scheme for the creation of corpus resources for linguistic based multilingual anaphora resolution. This scheme has been implemented for the annotation of English and Italian data. Inter-annotator agreement studies show that the annotation scheme is relaiable. The annotated corpora have been used for the anaphora resolution task, and the results have been compared with well known corpora. Finally hand annotated linguistic features have been used to help in the anaphora resolution process. The results show that our multilingual annotation scheme proposal has been utilized to produce data useful to build anaphora resolution systems for languages with different grammatical and typological features, like English and Italian.
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Andrade, Maria José Cavalcanti de. "Anáforas encapsuladoras na voz do narrador de menino de engenho." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2015. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1117.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorA presente dissertação intitulada Anáforas encapsuladoras na voz do narrador de Menino de engenho tem como objetivo primeiramente identificar os encapsulamentos anafóricos que ocorrem em alguns fragmentos da voz do narrador da obra literária de José Lins do Rego. Sobre as anáforas, observamos a sua importância no contexto em que estão sendo utilizadas, facilitando a compreensão do sentido dos objetos-de-discurso previamente colocados no texto. Levando-se em consideração os estudos sobre a Linguística textual, especificamente a teoria da Referenciação, baseamo-nos no referencial teórico dos trabalhos de Koch (2011b, 2014); Koch & Elias (2012); Mondada & Dubois (2003); Cavalcante (2013); Cortez (2012) para respaldar a investigação sobre as anáforas. Além disso, temos como objetivo discutir as anáforas encapsuladoras na voz do narrador, que, concedeu-nos, à luz da polifonia de Oswald Ducrot (1987), distinguir o narrador/locutor do narrador/enunciador. Ademais, há um jogo de vozes, haja vista que surge a indagação: ora é o narrador/locutor que surge ou o narrador/enunciador? A partir disso, evidenciamos a relevância do contexto para identificação da voz que se enuncia. Analisamos, a partir dos estudos realizados sobre as anáforas encapsuladoras e a teoria polifônica de Ducrot, alguns fragmentos da obra que comprovam os encapsulamentos e sua relação com a voz do narrador. As expressões anafóricas fortalecem o dito pelo narrador e revelam os enunciados pelas vozes que surgem no contexto. A escolha do referido cânone literário deve-se à analogia entre a narrativa memorialista e a própria anáfora pelo fato de que em ambas há um movimento de retorno, que faz retomar algo que foi vivido (no caso da narrativa) ou que foi dito (no caso da anáfora). A narrativa memorialista trabalhada não no viés da literariedade em si, mas na análise da profusão de vozes que surgem nas expressões anafóricas evidencia a relevância dos estudos linguísticos bem como seus usos na obra literária em pauta que, por sua vez, reflete a pluralidade da ação e diz algo sobre o mundo real.
This Anaphoras dissertation entitled encapsulating the voice of the Menino de engenho narrator aims to first identify the anaphoric tunnels that occur in some fragments of the voice of the narrator of the novel by José Lins do Rego. About the anaphora, observe its importance in the context in which they are being used, facilitating the understanding of the meaning of the objects of-speech previously placed in the text. Taking into account the studies on the textual linguistics, specifically the theory of referencing, we rely on the theoretical framework of Koch's work (2011b, 2014); Koch & Elias (2012); Mondada & Dubois (2003); Cavalcante (2013); Cortez (2012) to support research on anaphora. In addition, we aim to discuss the encapsulation anaphora in the narrator's voice, which gave us the light of polyphony Oswald Ducrot (1987), distinguish the narrator / announcer of the narrator / enunciator. In addition, there is a "mess" of voices, given that arises the question: now is o narrador / announcer who comes or the narrator / enunciator? From this, we saw the relevance of voice identification context that sets out. Analyzed, from studies on the encapsulation anaphora and polyphonic theory Ducrot, some fragments of the work that prove the tunnels and their relationship to the voice of the narrator. Anaphoric expressions strengthen said by the narrator and reveal the statements by the voices that arise in the context. The choice of such literary canon is due to the analogy between narrative and memoir itself anaphora by the fact that in both there is a return movement, which is getting back something that was lived (in the case of the narrative) or what was said (in case of anaphora). The narrative memoir worked not in the bias of literariness itself, but the analysis of the multitude of voices that arise in anaphoric expressions highlights the relevance of linguistic studies and their uses in the literary work in question which, in turn, reflects the plurality of action and says something about the real world.
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Hicks, Glyn. "The derivation of anaphoric relations." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438052.
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This thesis develops an analysis of the binding theory within the Minimalist approach to the architecture of the language faculty. As an expression of the principles governing the distribution and referential dependencies of reflexives, pronouns, and referential expressions, the binding theory has proved a highly successful and influential outcome of the generative programme. However, given the central Minimalist conjecture that the computational system is strictly derivational (non-representational), the binding theory has become one of the most problematic modules of the grammar, relying crucially on syntactically active constraints defined over representations of sentences. I aim to capture a range of crosslinguistic empirical facts previously attributed to Conditions A and B of the binding theory, armed only with purely derivational concepts and a generalised derivational domain: the ‘phase’. It is argued that binding relations are essentially determined in the computational component of the grammar, and substantial evidence is provided against viewing the binding conditions as interpretive instructions applying at LF. I argue that the binding conditions’ effects can instead be determined by the core operations Agree and Merge, with previously stipulated constraints on binding, including c-command and locality, falling out naturally from this analysis. Moreover, the strategy of reducing the local binding conditions to more general mechanisms leads to an elimination of the binding theory as a component of Universal Grammar. Independently motivated modifications to the canonical implementation of the Minimalist model are shown to furnish the approach with sufficient flexibility to account for some long-problematic empirical phenomena. This includes a complete treatment of ‘picture-noun’ reflexivisation in English and an account of the syntactic environments giving rise to non-complementarity between anaphors and pronouns. Finally, proposals are made for extending the approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding domains and orientation phenomena, with particular focus on Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.
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Ikawa, Hisako. "Events and anaphoric processes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288990.
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This dissertation deals with the cognitive act of perception and the linguistic form of perceptual reports, and the linguistic mechanism of anaphoric processes involved in the semantics of atomic "events" in human language. It has been claimed that the notion of "events" should be incorporated into formal grammar. Adopting this insight, our main concern in the present thesis is how "events" are realized in syntactic and semantic structures. I show that Japanese is a suitable language to demonstrate that an "event" is a fundamental notion of human thought and language. I follow Davidson's (1967) original conception of event semantics, and I illustrate that human language has a variety of devices for marking events, and that our language architecture does reflect the event structure of the human mind. More specifically, following the ontological discussion of Bach (1981, 1989), I provide evidence that supports Higginbotham (1985, 1987, 1996) and Higginbotham and Ramchand (1996), who claim that every predicate (including stative predicates) has an implicit event argument that can be bound by either overt or non-overt operators. For this purpose, I look at data from three general areas. The first area is the cognitive judgment style of thetic assertion and its syntactic realization in perceptual reports. I show that thetic sentences are sentences in which an event variable e&barbelow; is obligatorily existentially closed. The second area I address involves anaphoric processes of reciprocity and eventualities in linguistics semantics. Specifically, I investigate otagai and V-aw, the so-called "reciprocals" in Japanese. The properties of otagai and V-aw give rise to the seeming appearance of reciprocity. However, I illustrate that "reciprocals" in Japanese are not like the reciprocals in English. I propose that otagai is a dual existential quantifier over event positions, and that it binds event variables in predicates. The third area is the semantics of zibun (the so-called "reflexive" in Japanese) and otagai with regard to "intensional context". This analysis reveals the different stage-phases of the properties of the Japanese pro-forms. Throughout the chapters, I pursue the question of how "stageness" is captured and computed in human language devices.
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Pettersson, Theresia. "Stockholms stads tänkeböcker : Funktionell texthistoria 1476-1626." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-142110.
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The aim of this thesis is to shed light on language variation and language change in judicial protocols from the municipal court in Stockholm during the period 1476−1626. These documents provide a unique insight into late medieval and early modern use of written vernacular. The main material consists of 700 courtroom notes from seven different periods of time, a hundred documents from each year: 1476, 1499, 1525, 1550, 1575, 1600, and 1626. The study draws theoretically on functional linguistics; more specifically, it utilizes Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar, Ulf Teleman’s (1985) theoretical model of language change, as well as dialogism. The results are presented in four analytical chapters. In the first of these, the aim is to systemize the somewhat heterogeneous material, and the corpus is divided in two different ways: one due to judicial content (‘categories of matter’), and one due to textual structure (‘discourse levels’). These systemizations also serve as a methodological foundation for the lexicogrammatical analysis in the following chapters. A main result is that multi-party cases over time develop a functional need for new communication strategies, while unilateral cases already from the beginning seem to bear a more deep-rooted textual stability. In addition, there is a significant increase of discourse level 3, representing communicative events outside the courtroom, in multi-party cases found in texts from 1600 and 1626. In the two following chapters, lexicogrammatical resources of ‘personal reference’ and ‘time and tense’ are analysed. The texts realize different patterns of anaphora, where individuation explains much of the variation: texts with high degree of individuation (criminal cases) materialize a high degree of pronouns, whereas texts regarding property issues materialize low individuation with few pronouns and many full NPs. Regarding the use of tense, the past tense is the most common tense. Still, the study shows an diachronic increase in the use of present tense. The last analytical chapter examines the use of three lexical features: judicial pronouns; word pairs; and nominalizations. The results show that judicial pronouns and word pairs typically occur in registrations matters; nominalizations occur throughout the genre. In the last chapter, the results and implications of the thesis are summated and discussed. The results point towards a pragmatic use of the written language. Although the lexicogrammatical resources are the same during the period, the usages vary. Hence, linguistic variation and change are highly motivated by an intercommunion of contextual factors such as a more solid administrative literacy, a changing litigation, and an increase of legal demands for linguistic precision and documentation. It is argued that the language variety in the genre can be understood as instantiations of different registers.
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Carter, David Maclean. "A shallow processing approach to anaphor resolution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256804.
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The thesis describes an investigation of the feasibility of resolving anaphors in natural language texts by means of a "shallow processing" approach which exploits knowledge of syntax, semantics and local focussing as heavily as possible; it does not rely on the presence of large amounts of world or domain knowledge, which are notoriously hard to process accurately. The ideas reported are implemented in a program called SPAR (Shallow Processing Anaphor Resolver), which resolves anaphoric and other linguistic ambiguities in simple English stories and generates sentence-by-sentence paraphrases that show what interpretations have been selected. Input to SPAR takes the form of semantic structures for single sentences constructed by Boguraev's English analyser. These structures are integrated into a network-style text representation as processing proceeds. To achieve anaphor resolution, SPAR combines and develops several existing techniques, most notably Sidner's theory of local focussing and Wilks' "preference semantics" theory of semantics and common sense inference. Consideration of the need to resolve several anaphors in the same sentence results in Sidner's framework being modified and extended to allow focus-based processing to interact more flexibly with processing based on other types of knowledge. Wilks' treatment of common sense inference is extended to incorporate a wider range of types of inference without jeopardizing its uniformity and simplicity. Further, his primitive-based formalism for word sense meanings is developed in the interests of economy, accuracy and ease of use. Although SPAR is geared mainly towards resolving anaphors, the design of the system allows many non-anaphoric (lexical and structural) ambiguities that cannot be resolved during sentence analysis to be resolved as a by-product of anaphor resolution.
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Nelli, María Florencia. "Studies in the demonstrative pronouns of early Greek." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b61ae3df-f234-42ad-b69d-95187f1196e7.
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This study identifies and describes constituents, patterns and distribution of the system –or systems- of demonstratives of a representative selection of early Greek dialects, namely the “Arcado-Cyprian” group: Arcadian and Cyprian, including a short analysis of Pamphylian as well as a discussion of the particle νι/νυ and a brief note on Mycenaean; the “Aeolic” group: Lesbian, Boeotian and Thessalian; and a selection of West Greek dialects, including both “Doric” and “Northwest Greek” dialects: Elean, Cretan, Laconian, Cyrenaean and Theran. It also examines, describes and compares the syntactic functions and, where possible, pragmatic uses of the series of demonstratives in operation in the selected dialects, providing a classification capable of accounting for all uses cross-dialectically, as well as a succinct account of the evolution of the system of demonstratives from Indo-European to “Ancient Greek”. Additionally, it offers a glimpse of the way in which deixis and anaphora seem to have worked in early Greek dialectal inscriptions, addressing the issue of defining demonstrative pronouns, as well as deixis and anaphora in general terms. Finally, this thesis provides the basis for a cross-dialectal comparison of the structure and operation of the different systems of demonstratives, and corrects some general misconceptions about the scope, usage and inter-dialectal connections of some series of demonstratives, particularly with regard to Arcadian and Cyprian. The results of such a study might contribute towards the discussion of the classification and history of the evolution of early Greek dialects.
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Buscail, Laurie. "Étude comparative des pronoms démonstratifs neutres anglais et français à l'oral : référence indexicale, structure du discours et formalisation en grammaire notionnelle dépendancielle." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00965362.
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Cette thèse explore le fonctionnement indexical des pronoms démonstratifs anglais this, that et it d'une part, et des pronoms démonstratifs français, en particulier ça, d'autre part, en vue d'une comparaison entre ces deux systèmes. L'ensemble des phénomènes référentiels et discursifs observés sont ramenés à certaines caractéristiques syntactico-sémantiques propres à chaque démonstratif, alors formalisées dans le cadre de la Grammaire Notionnelle Dépendancielle. Les occurrences de this, that, it et ça analysées étant issues de conversations orales spontanées et enregistrées selon le protocole des projets PAC et PFC, notre étude apporte un questionnement sur les avantages et les limites des grands corpus oraux pour les recherches en linguistique théorique.
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Matos, Janaica Gomes. "As funÃÃes discursivas das recategorizaÃÃes." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2005. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=998.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorEsta dissertaÃÃo possui como escopo a anÃlise das funÃÃes discursivas das recategorizaÃÃes. Este trabalho restringe-se à anÃlise das recategorizaÃÃes lexicais ocorridas por meio de anÃforas diretas, correferenciais. Adotamos a perspectiva teÃrica de que o fenÃmeno pesquisado situa-se na atividade discursiva de referenciaÃÃo, concebida como uma (re)construÃÃo do real, advinda da interaÃÃo entre os falantes, de forma intersubjetiva. Propomos uma classificaÃÃo das possÃveis funÃÃes assumidas pelas recategorizaÃÃes nos diferentes contextos discursivos. Para tal fim, abordamos, inicialmente, a proposta classificatÃria de Cavalcante (2003) dos processos referenciais, entre os quais estÃo inseridas as recategorizaÃÃes. A partir disso, retomamos a anÃlise pioneira de ApothÃloz e Reichler-BÃguelin (1995) sobre as recategorizaÃÃes, bem como discutimos os trabalhos de Tavares (2003) e de Lima (2003), que se baseiam nos dois autores. Contemplamos, fundamentalmente, a sugestÃo de Koch (2004) sobre as funÃÃes cognitivo-discursivas das expressÃes nominais referenciais, que serviram de parÃmetro para nossa proposta de funÃÃes das recategorizaÃÃes. Nosso corpus consta de 80 textos de diversos gÃneros: destes, 62 textos foram por nÃs escolhidos aleatoriamente; a outra parte da amostra à pertencente ao banco de dados do grupo de estudos Protexto/UFC. Com a anÃlise dos dados, averiguamos traÃos funcionais das recategorizaÃÃes, que vieram a compor nossa classificaÃÃo e nos levaram a constatar que as recategorizaÃÃes podem ser multifuncionais nos discursos. (213 palavras)
This dissertation has as a goal the analysis of the discourse functions of the recategorizations. This research was delimited to the analysis of the occurred lexical recategorizations through direct co-referential anaphoras. We adopt the theoretical perspective of that the searched phenomenon is placed in the activity discourse of referencing, conceived as a (re) construction of the reality, happened of the interaction between the speakers, in a intersubjective way. We proposed one classification of the possible functions assumed for the recategorizations in different discourse contexts. For such end, we approached, initially, the classifying proposal by Cavalcante (2003) about referential expressions, that has been used as a base of our functional proposal about recategorizations. From this, we retook the pioneer analysis by ApothÃloz and Reichler-BÃguelin (1995) about recategorizations, and we discussed the works by Tavares (2003) and Lima (2003), based on the two authors. We contemplated, basically, the suggestion by Koch (2004) about cognitive and discourse functions of the lexical referential expressions; in our proposal about recategorizations. Our corpus consisted of 80 texts was taken from different genres: 62 of them were chosen casually. Another part belongs to the bank of data of Protexto/UFC group studies. With the analysis of the data, we inquired functional traces of the recategorizations, that had come to compose our classification and it had taken us to evidence that recategorizations can be multi-functional in the speeches. (219 words)