A typology of anaphoric and cataphoric relations expressed by English complex determiners  

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Breban, Tine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 11 (2011), page 2689–2703.
Topik: Anaphora Cataphora Complex determiner Generalized reference Coreferentiality
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Traditionally, the study of anaphoric and cataphoric relations has focused mainly on their coding by simple determiners such as the or this. In this paper, we will show that complex determiners, i.e. combinations of a primary and secondary determiner such as the same, another, the fifth, construct phoric relations of greater complexity or with added semanticpragmatic features in comparison with simple determiners. We propose a typology of the five basic types of phoric relations expressed by complex determiners. Like simple determiners, they can (i) signal the retrievability of an instance and (ii) express generalized reference. However, they add features such as emphasis to the coreferentiality relation, and they make the basis for generalization, e.g. comparison, explicit. Complex determiners can also express three types of phoric relations which cannot be conveyed by simple determiners. They can (i) introduce a new instance of phorically given type specifications, (ii) set up a phoric relation between a given reference mass and a definite proportion of it, and (iii) establish reference to an instance identified vis-a` -vis a previous instance on a scale. The framework we use to discuss these phoric relations is a general cognitivefunctional one, drawing mainly on Langacker (1991, 2001).

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