Anaphora
A Cross-Linguistic Study
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Publisher:Oxford University Press
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This book provides an in-depth look at contemporary issues in anaphora, making it an essential resource for linguistics students and researchers.
In Anaphora, Yan Huang offers a comprehensive and approachable examination of the key contemporary issues surrounding anaphora. He critically surveys the diverse modern approaches to this complex topic, providing insights that are both profound and accessible. The work draws on an extensive cross-linguistic account, utilizing data from approximately 550 languages worldwide, which enriches the discussion and broadens the scope of understanding.
Understanding communication hinges on the ability of listeners or readers to recognize references to previously mentioned concepts, such as pronouns and demonstratives. This intricate process, known as anaphora, involves a blend of cognitive and syntactic mechanisms that individuals navigate intuitively. However, these processes pose significant challenges for linguists and cognitive scientists aiming to elucidate how comprehension occurs. Consequently, anaphora is a focal point in both syntactic and semantic theory, while its modeling is crucial in computational linguistics and cognitive science.
Written by a leading authority in the field, Anaphora will serve as a definitive reference for scholars and students alike. It covers a wide range of topics, including binding and control, null subjects and objects, long-distance reflexivization, logophoricity, bridging cross-reference, switch-reference, and discourse anaphora. This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and linguistic typology, offering a vital resource for anyone engaged with this important area of theoretical linguistics.
Huang took on the immense job not only of popularizing his own views but of discussing other people's ideas, and as a result the book provides a thorough retelling and critical analysis of a variety of approaches to anaphora ... Huang is a very conscientious critic ... Yan Huang's book makes an important contribution to the understanding of anaphora and related issues. It is also a very good reference source, enlightening those who have always wanted to know what, for example, "sluicing", "pseudo-gapping", or "return pop" means, but have not dared to ask. This book also comes handy for those functionalists who insufficiently familiar with formal theorizing about anaphora: at a relatively low cost, it gives them a fairly good idea of what they are rejecting. * Andrej A. Kibrik, Linguistic Typology *
...an impressive book which i recommend to all linguistics; it will change your theoretical assumptions and expand your typological horizons ... This book sets the standard against which any future account of anaphora, syntactic, or pragmatic, will be measured. * Steve Nicolle, SIL International Book Reviews *
Huang's book is extremely rich in coverage ... [I]t is an excellent and recommendable reference work ... Anaphora, besides being a comprehensive summary of the state of the art, tries to come to grips with intricate problems in a stimulating and sometimes controversial manner. For anybody interested in anaphora, this book can be expected to serve as a major point of orientation for many years to come. * Language *
Huang's book is an important contribution to the study of anaphora. The wealth of crosslinguistic data (over 500 languages from various language families are represented), and especially the emphasis on switch-reference and related phenomena, fill a gap that often exists in other theoretical work on this topic ... Huang's main theoretical contribution is the unified neo-Gricean account of anaphora. * Journal of Pragmatics *
ISBN: 9780198235286
Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
Weight: 600g
412 pages