Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-Cambridge University).
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. A neo-Gricean pragmatic theory and anaphora -- pt. I. Anaphora in Government and Binding Theory. 2. Empty categories. 3. Control. 4. Long-distance reflexivisation -- pt. II. The Pragmatics of Anaphora. 5. A neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora. 6. Further applications of the theory. 7. Anaphoric production in conversation. 8. Anaphoric resolution in conversation -- 9. Conclusions.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlying principles of innate Universal Grammar, and the view is widely held that only syntactic and semantic factors are crucial to intrasentential anaphora. Yan Huang questions the basis of the Government and Binding approach and argues that syntax and pragmatics are interconnected in determining many anaphoric processes. Furthermore, he proposes that the extent to which syntax and pragmatics interact varies typologically. There exists a class of language (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean) in which pragmatics plays a central role that in familiar European languages is alleged to be played by grammar. Yan Huang's pragmatic theory has far-reaching implications for this important issue in theoretical linguistics.
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Title
Cambridge studies in linguistics
Volume Number
no:70
International Standard Serial Number
0068-676X
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Chinese language-- Anaphora.
Semantics.
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Chinese language-- Anaphora.
17.61 pragmatics.
Anafora.
Anapher
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Anaphore-- Thèses et écrits académiques.
Chinees.
Chinese language-- Anaphora.
Chinese language-- Anaphora.
Chinesisch
Chinois (langue)-- Anaphore-- Thèses et écrits académiques.