Anaphora - A Cross-Linguistic Study (Hardcover)

Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of reference, anaphora, involves complicated cognitive and syntactic processes, which people usually perform unerringly, but which present formidable problems for the linguist and cognitive scientist trying to explain precisely how comprehension is achieved. Anaphora is thus a central research focus in syntactic and semantic theory, while understanding and modelling its operation in discourse are important targets in computational linguistics and cognitive science. Yan Huang provides an extensive and accessible overview of the major contemporary issues surrounding anaphora and gives a critical survey of the many and diverse contemporary approaches to it. He provides by far the fullest cross-linguistic account yet published: Dr Huang's survey and analysis are based on a rich collection of data drawn from around 450 of the world's languages.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
Release date:	August 2000
First published:	November 2000
Authors:	Yan Huang (Professor of Linguistics,)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-823529-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	0-19-823529-1
Barcode:	9780198235293

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