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Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 7:57
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." > > 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] http://pegasus.cityofveils.com SYSTEM ERROR: Offer sacrifice to keyboard to continue.