Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 7:53 |
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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."
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