Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198235293)

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.
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.

Author: Yan Huang
ISBN-10: 0198235291
ISBN-13: 9780198235293
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2000
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d