[Lingtyp] Term for “non-pronominal anaphora"

Sun May 30 17:37:58 UTC 2021

I agree with Bill: "anaphora" does not refer only to "pronouns" or
"pro-forms". In a sentence such as *The jury found him guilty and the
verdict shocked him deeply*  'the verdict' refers anaphorically (= looking
backwards)  to what has been said  in the first coordinated sentence. On
the contrary, *The verdict of the jury was: he is guilty *. 'the verdict'
is in cataphoric (=looking forwards) position.
I think that if we consider anaphora and cataphora together, we can get a
better understanding of both.

Paolo

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Il giorno dom 30 mag 2021 alle ore 15:48 William Croft <wcroft at unm.edu> ha
scritto:

> 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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> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> JOO, Ian [Student] <ian.joo at connect.polyu.hk>
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 30, 2021 1:54 AM
> *To:* LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] Term for “non-pronominal anaphora"
>
>
> *  [EXTERNAL]*
> 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>:
>
> 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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