[Lingtyp] Term for “non-pronominal anaphora"

Sun May 30 13:48:11 UTC 2021

Dear all,

   I find the definition of "anaphora" implied in Ian's post to presuppose a theory of anaphora that not everyone, certainly not myself, agrees with. Namely, that anaphora only happens across sentences, and/or the only strategy for anaphora are "pronouns" or "pro-forms". Both of these assumptions have been debated, and there are different theories; see Croft (2013) and references cited therein. I think "anaphora" as a comparative concept should be defined more broadly -- as I think it generally is -- to accommodate different theories about the possible form of anaphoric expressions, and their possible distribution.

Bill

Croft, William. 2013. “Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference.” Languages across boundaries: studies in memory of Anna Siewierska, ed. Dik Bakker and Martin Haspelmath, 107-29. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

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Dear all,

thank you for your guidance.
I think the closest form is “lexical/nominal anaphora” but given the examples I’ve read so far, it seems that they are different from the lexical repetition within a clause.
For example, in the following sentence, “the guy” refers to John, but it’s not in the same clause as “John”:
“I know John_i. The guy_i has a dog.”
But in the following Korean, the two occurences of “John” are within the same clause:
“John_i-kwa John_i-uy kay" (lit. John_i and John_i’s dog)
So I think the the within-clause repetition and cross-clause repetition must be distinguished.
Also I agree with Martin’s initial suggestion that this Korean case shouldn’t be termed as “anaphora” because it really isn’t anaphoric reference. It’s just the repeated occurrence of the same lexeme where you would expect anaphora in an European language, so to call it anaphora might be a little Euro-centric.

>From Hong Kong,
Ian
On 27 May 2021, 11:41 PM +0800, Christian Chiarcos <christian.chiarcos at web.de>, wrote:
Depends on the context, I guess. In the area of *anaphor resolution* and *linguistic annotation*, "nominal anaphora" is much more established. "Lexical anaphora" is potentially ambiguous, because it would also cover or at least overlap with "verbal anaphora", a term occasionally used for "do so" constructions and/or verb repetitions.

Best,
Christian

Am Fr., 21. Mai 2021 um 08:00 Uhr schrieb JOO, Ian [Student] <ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk<mailto:ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk>>:
Dear all,

is there a term for “non-pronominal anaphora”, i. e. using personal names or titles for anaphoric reference?
Example:
Hyeng-kwa hyeng-uy chinkwu
older.brother-COM older.brother-GEN friend
`Older brother and his (lit. older brother’s) friend’ (Korean)
I tried to search it in Google, but since I don’t know what this phenomenon is called, I don’t know what to search for.
I would appreciate your help.

Regards,
ian
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