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Nominal Associative Anaphors – A Text-Based Analysis at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

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Anaphora Processing and Applications (DAARC 2011)

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This pilot study investigates the proportion of nominal associative anaphors (NAAs) in German texts. The research is motivated by a study that shows a high proportion of nonpossessive uses among two-place predicates (cf.[16]). Such cases could be explained by NAAs, in that their anchor may provide the required possessor argument. The question is for how many of the nonpossessive uses NAAs account for. Methodologically, we present a preliminary manual for the annotation of NAAs and apply it to a text collection of two text sorts. The results show that a large proportion of nonpossessive uses are NAAs. On closer examination not only do we find that the NAA occurrences reflect the distinction between one- and two-place predicates, but also that the distribution of NAAs exhibits differences with respect to their concept types (functional, relational, sortal, individual) proposed in the theory of concept types and determination (cf. [21]).

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  1. Department of Computational Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Nicolas Kimm

  2. Department of General Linguistics, Institute for Language and Information, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  1. Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2, 1649-003, Lisboa, Portugal

    Iris Hendrickx

  2. K. B. Chandrasekhar Research Centre, Anna University, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chromepet, 600044, Chennai, India

    Sobha Lalitha Devi

  3. Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Informática, Cidade Universitária, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal

    António Branco

  4. School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies, Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, Wolverhampton, UK

    Ruslan Mitkov

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Kimm, N., Horn, C. (2011). Nominal Associative Anaphors – A Text-Based Analysis at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. In: Hendrickx, I., Lalitha Devi, S., Branco, A., Mitkov, R. (eds) Anaphora Processing and Applications. DAARC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7099. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25917-3_10

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