Ellipsis and reference tracking in Japanese /
In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages. This book e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub.,
[2003]
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 66. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages. This book elucidates the linguistic mechanisms for ellipsis resolution in Japanese, mechanisms which involve complex processes of inference that integrate grammatical, sociolinguistic, and discourse considerations with real world knowledge. These processes are realised in an integrated algorithm, the validity |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 397 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-394) and index |
ISBN: | 9789027295927 9027295921 9789027230768 9027230765 9781588114204 1588114201 |
ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |