Anaphora and Conceptual Structure

By: Karen van Hoek

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Hardcover | 2 September 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Karen van Hoek presents a cogent analysis of the classic problem of constraints on pronominal anaphora within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Van Hoek proceeds from the position that grammatical structure can be characterized in terms of semantic and phonological representations, without autonomous syntactic structures or principles such as tree structures or c-command. She argues that constraints on anaphora can be explained in terms of semantic interactions between nominals and the contexts in which they are embedded.
Integrating the results of previous work, Van Hoek develops a model in which some nominals function as "conceptual reference points" that dominate over stretches defined by the semantic relations among elements. When a full noun is in the domain of a reference point, coreference is ruled out, since the speaker would be sending contradictory messages about the salience of the noun's referent.
With profound implications for the nature of syntax, this book will interest theoretical linguists of all persuasions.

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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Issue
The Conceptual Basis of the Constraints
The Nature and Limitations of C-Command
The Relationship between Syntax and Discourse
Theoretical Foundations
Introduction to Cognitive Grammar
Desiderata for a Model of Anaphora Constraints
Nominal Semantics
Anaphora Constraints and Grammaticality Judgments
Reference Points and the Complement Chain
Defining the Relevant Contexts
Reference Points and Dominions
The Complement Chain
POV Shifts and the Complement Chain
Summary
Conceptual Connectivity
Conceptual Connectivity
Modifiers Inside and Outside the Process Conception
Preposed Modifiers
Summary
Beyond the Anaphora Constraints
Backwards Anaphora
The Prototypical Configuration
The Pronoun as Peripheral Element
Repeat Identification
Summary
Anaphora in Discourse
Summary
Bound Anaphora
Quantifier Semantics
Bound Anaphora
The Replicate Process Conception
Reference Point Organization within the Complement Chain
The Antecedent as Reference Point
Summary
Reflexives
Reflexives and Pronouns
Prototypical Values of the Reflexive
The Schematic Reflexive Configurations
Extension from the Emphatic Reflexive
Near Extensions from the Reflexive Prototype
POV Reflexives
Constraints on Distribution of Reflexives
Point of View
The Relationship between Reference Point and POV
POV Dominions
Viewing within the Complement Chain
Shifting between Spaces
Summary Conclusion
Guiding Assumptions
Nominal Semantics
Interaction of Schemas
Conceptual Factors in Reference Point Organization
Cross-linguistic Applicability
Applications beyond Anaphora
Summary
Notes
References
Index
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