Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 7:57 |
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On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 11:53 , Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Quoting Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
>> ObConlang: What do you call methods of referring to previous
>> *sentences*? Is that a subcategory of deixis? And how are ways
>> to handle sentences (or phrases) specifically? In English it
>> seems to be the humdrum everyday "it" or "that," e.g. "I
>> understand it now."
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> Those're called anaphora. Pronouns are anaphoric to NPs, and
> pro-verbs are anaphoric to VPs; e.g., "did" in "Sally went
> to the store, and Martin did too."
<brightening> Thank you! I'd seen the word before in one of Rick Morneau'
s essays and failed to comprehend it then. It makes sense now--a case of
my brain having to mature before being able to take in the idea, I
suppose--and I'll go reread the essay now. :-)
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
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