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2. Antecedent (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, an antecedent is one or more words that establish the meaning of a pronoun or other pro-form. [1] For example, in the sentence "John arrived late because traffic held him up," the word "John" is the antecedent of the pronoun "him." Pro-forms usually follow their antecedents, but sometimes precede them.

3. Coreference - Wikipedia

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   Split antecedents a. Carol i told Bob i to attend the party. They i arrived together. – The anaphor they has a split antecedent, referring to both Carol and Bob. b. When Carol i helps Bob i and Bob i helps Carol i, they i can accomplish any task. – The anaphor they has a split antecedent, referring to both Carol and Bob. Coreferring noun ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

5. Binding (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   The following three subsections consider the binding domains that are relevant for the distribution of pronouns and nouns in English. The discussion follows the outline provided by the traditional binding theory (see below), which divides nominals into three basic categories: reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, personal pronouns, and nouns (common and proper).

6. Possessive antecedent - Wikipedia

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   In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in the possessive case; for example, in the following sentence, Winston Churchill is a possessive antecedent, serving as it does as the antecedent for the pronoun him: Winston Churchill's history shows him to have been a good writer.

7. PRO (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Reflexive pronouns such as myself and oneself require a local antecedent. As shown in (4), PRO can function as an antecedent for reflexives: in (4a) PRO is the antecedent for the reflexive pronoun 'myself', and in (4b) PRO functions as the antecedent for the impersonal reflexive oneself. If the null subject PRO were not present in examples like ...

8. Relative clause - Wikipedia

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   The antecedent of the relative clause (that is, the noun that is modified by it) can in theory be the subject of the main clause, or its object, or any other verb argument. In many languages, however, especially rigidly left-branching , dependent-marking languages with prenominal relative clauses, [ 12 ] there are major restrictions on the role ...

9. Denying the antecedent - Wikipedia

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   The name denying the antecedent derives from the premise "not P", which denies the "if" clause (antecedent) of the conditional premise. The only situation where one may deny the antecedent would be if the antecedent and consequent represent the same proposition, in which case the argument is trivially valid (and it would beg the question ...