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The Choice between Verbal Anaphors in Discourse

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Anaphora Processing and Applications (DAARC 2011)

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This paper investigates the conditions of choice in discourse between various verbal anaphors in English, namely Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis with auxiliary do; do so; and do it/this/that. On the basis of an extensive corpus survey, the following factors are shown to be relevant: (i) register, (ii) the presence or absence of an accessible polar alternative, (iii) whether the sentence containing the anaphor refers to the same state of affairs as that which contains the antecedent, (iv) the presence of a non contrastive adjunct, (v) the identity of the subject of the anaphor and its antecedent, (vi) the saliency of the antecedent.

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  1. Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité CLILLAC-ARP, EA 3967, 75004, Paris, France

    Philip Miller

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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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Miller, P. (2011). The Choice between Verbal Anaphors in Discourse. 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_8

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