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Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic fundamentals of anaphors and anaphora; 2.1 Basic definitions; 2.2 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 2.2.1 Coreference; 2.2.2 Substitution; 2.2.3 Comparison of coreference and substitution; 2.2.4 Sense relations; 2.3 Related concepts: cataphora, endophora, exophora and deixis; 2.3.1 Cataphora; 2.3.2 Endophora and exophora; 2.3.3 Deixis; 2.4 Anaphors as cohesive devices in texts; 2.4.1 Texts and their features; 2.4.2 Cohesion; 2.4.3 Cohesive devices as a form of reduction; 2.5 Anaphors in the present book; 3 Types of anaphors.

3.1 Central pronouns3.1.1 Personal pronouns; 3.1.1.1 Subjective and objective forms; 3.1.1.2 Person, number and gender; 3.1.1.3 Anaphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.1.1.4 Cataphoric use; 3.1.1.5 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.1.1.6 Summary; 3.1.2 Possessive pronouns; 3.1.2.1 Determinative and independent possessive pronouns; 3.1.2.2 Person, number and gender; 3.1.2.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.1.2.4 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.1.2.5 Summary; 3.1.3 Reflexive pronouns; 3.1.3.1 Basic and emphatic use; 3.1.3.2 Person, number and gender.

3.1.3.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use3.1.3.4 Summary; 3.1.4 Summary of personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns; 3.2 Reciprocal pronouns; 3.2.1 Compound and split construction; 3.2.2 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.2.3 Summary; 3.3 Demonstrative pronouns; 3.3.1 Dependent and independent demonstrative pronouns; 3.3.2 Grammatical and referential aspects; 3.3.3 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.3.4 Relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.3.5 Summary; 3.4 Relative pronouns; 3.4.1 Form and function.

3.4.2 Types of clauses and their anaphoric and non-anaphoric use3.4.3 Further non-anaphoric uses; 3.4.4 Gender and case; 3.4.5 Summary; 3.5 Adverbs; 3.5.1 Here and there; 3.5.2 Now and then; 3.5.3 Where, when, while and why; 3.5.4 Summary; 3.6 Noun phrases with a definite article; 3.6.1 Syntactic characteristics; 3.6.2 Anaphoric/cataphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.6.3 The relationship between anaphor and antecedent; 3.6.4 Summary; 3.7 Proper names; 3.7.1 Proper names and proper nouns; 3.7.2 Syntactic features; 3.7.3 Anaphoric and non-anaphoric use; 3.7.4 Summary; 3.8 Indefinite pronouns.

3.8.1 One and ones3.8.2 Other, others and another; 3.8.3 Both, all and each; 3.8.4 Enough and several; 3.8.5 Some and any; 3.8.6 Either, neither and none; 3.8.7 Many and much/more/most, few/fewer/fewest and little/less/least; 3.8.8 Further non-anaphoric uses of all of-pronouns; 3.8.9 Cataphoric use; 3.8.10 Indefinite pronouns as elliptical forms; 3.8.11 Summary; 3.9 Other forms of coreference and substitution: the same, such and so; 3.9.1 The same; 3.9.2 Such; 3.9.3 So; 3.9.4 Cataphoric use; 3.9.5 Summary; 3.10 Verb phrases with do and combinations with so, this, that, it and the same (thing).

3.10.1 Simple forms with do.

The fields of linguistics and information technology can profit from each other in valuable ways if they get connected in a truly interdisciplinary way. This book focuses on anaphora resolution for the English language and shows how rewarding a linguistic-computational perspective can be. It outlines all types of anaphors and their frequencies and also develops rules for resolving non-finite clause anaphors, which have never before been examined.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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