new anaphora book (fwd)

Yan Huang llshuang at READING.AC.UK
Mon Oct 1 13:24:00 UTC 2001


Dear colleagues - can I let you know that my new book on anaphora has
recently come out. It shows that various generative appraoches are
mistaken and it advances a functional neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis. I
attach an OUP flyer below. Hope the book will be of interest to your
students and libraries. Many thanks for your attention, Yan Huang.
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                      Oxford University Press

                 Anaphora: A Cross-linguistic Study
           (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

                           Yan Huang

This is the most extensive cross-linguistic account of anaphora ever
published.

Anaphora is at the centre of work on the interface between syntax,
semantics and pragmatics. It is also a subject of key current interest in
psycho- and computational linguistics and to research on the philosophy of
language and language in cognitive science.

Yan Huang provides an extensive yet accessible overview of the major
contemporary issues surrounding anaphora and gives a critical survey of
the many and diverse contemporary approaches to it. He also advances the
neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora he has developed in earlier work.
The survey and analysis are based on a rich collection of data drawn from
a representative range of some 550 of the world's languages. The topics
the author covers include binding and control, null subjects and objects,
long-distance reflexivization, VP-ellipsis, logophoricity, bridging-cross
reference, switch-reference and discourse anaphora.

Written by a leading expert on anaphora, this book will be the standard
point of reference for all those interested in this important topic
in theoretical linguisitcs.


Yan Huang (PhD, Cambridge; DPhil, Oxford) is Reader in Linguistics at the
University of Reading. He has taught previously at the University of
Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He is the author of the
internationally acclaimed The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (Cambridge
University Press, 1994). He has also published a number of articles and
reviews in major international journals of linguistics.

August 2000  412pp
ISBN 0-19-823529-1 hb
ISBN 0-19-823528-3 pb



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