Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval : a Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts.
The fields of linguistics and information technology can profit from each other in valuable ways if they get connected in a truly interdisciplinary way. This book focuses on anaphora resolution for the English language and shows how rewarding a linguistic-computational perspective can be. It outline...
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De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Series: | Empirische Linguistik / Empirical Linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic fundamentals of anaphors and anaphora; 2.1 Basic definitions; 2.2 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 2.2.1 Coreference; 2.2.2 Substitution; 2.2.3 Comparison of coreference and substitution; 2.2.4 Sense relations; 2.3 Related concepts: cataphora, endophora, exophora and deixis; 2.3.1 Cataphora; 2.3.2 Endophora and exophora; 2.3.3 Deixis; 2.4 Anaphors as cohesive devices in texts; 2.4.1 Texts and their features; 2.4.2 Cohesion; 2.4.3 Cohesive devices as a form of reduction; 2.5 Anaphors in the present book; 3 Types of anaphors.
- 3.1 Central pronouns3.1.1 Personal pronouns; 3.1.1.1 Subjective and objective forms; 3.1.1.2 Person, number and gender; 3.1.1.3 Anaphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.1.1.4 Cataphoric use; 3.1.1.5 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.1.1.6 Summary; 3.1.2 Possessive pronouns; 3.1.2.1 Determinative and independent possessive pronouns; 3.1.2.2 Person, number and gender; 3.1.2.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.1.2.4 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.1.2.5 Summary; 3.1.3 Reflexive pronouns; 3.1.3.1 Basic and emphatic use; 3.1.3.2 Person, number and gender.
- 3.1.3.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use3.1.3.4 Summary; 3.1.4 Summary of personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns; 3.2 Reciprocal pronouns; 3.2.1 Compound and split construction; 3.2.2 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.2.3 Summary; 3.3 Demonstrative pronouns; 3.3.1 Dependent and independent demonstrative pronouns; 3.3.2 Grammatical and referential aspects; 3.3.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.3.4 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.3.5 Summary; 3.4 Relative pronouns; 3.4.1 Form and function.
- 3.4.2 Types of clauses and their anaphoric and non-anaphoric use3.4.3 Further non-anaphoric uses; 3.4.4 Gender and case; 3.4.5 Summary; 3.5 Adverbs; 3.5.1 Here and there; 3.5.2 Now and then; 3.5.3 Where, when, while and why; 3.5.4 Summary; 3.6 Noun phrases with a definite article; 3.6.1 Syntactic characteristics; 3.6.2 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.6.3 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.6.4 Summary; 3.7 Proper names; 3.7.1 Proper names and proper nouns; 3.7.2 Syntactic features; 3.7.3 Anaphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.7.4 Summary; 3.8 Indefinite pronouns.
- 3.8.1 One and ones3.8.2 Other, others and another; 3.8.3 Both, all and each; 3.8.4 Enough and several; 3.8.5 Some and any; 3.8.6 Either, neither and none; 3.8.7 Many and much/more/most, few/fewer/fewest and little/less/least; 3.8.8 Further non-anaphoric uses of all of-pronouns; 3.8.9 Cataphoric use; 3.8.10 Indefinite pronouns as elliptical forms; 3.8.11 Summary; 3.9 Other forms of coreference and substitution: the same, such and so; 3.9.1 The same; 3.9.2 Such; 3.9.3 So; 3.9.4 Cataphoric use; 3.9.5 Summary; 3.10 Verb phrases with do and combinations with so, this, that, it and the same (thing).