14.1421, Disc: New: Anaphora makes the headlines
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Subject: 14.1421, Disc: New: Anaphora makes the headlines
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:10:54 -0400
From: "Michael A. Covington" <mc at uga.edu>
Subject: Anaphora makes the headlines -- perhaps undeservedly
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:10:54 -0400
From: "Michael A. Covington" <mc at uga.edu>
Subject: Anaphora makes the headlines -- perhaps undeservedly
On the web page
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/15/psat.question.ap/index.html
CNN reports that the College Board has changed a number of students'
PSAT scores because the College Board now believes that the sentence
Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create
novels that arise from and express the injustices
African Americans have endured.
is ungrammatical. Students were asked whether there was a grammar
error in this sentence, and the originally correct answer was, "No
error."
A student protested that the sentence is ungrammatical because there
is no antecedent for "her." The argument is that "Toni Morrison's" is
an adjective, not a noun (sic).
The College Board accepted the protest.
Well... Linguists, can a possessive NP serve as the antecedent for a
pronoun? I think so, and I think the College Board has erred. What
do others think?
Michael A. Covington, Associate Director
Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7415 U.S.A.
http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com
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