Inter-clausal Anaphora in Chinese Conditionals: a Multi-factorial Analysis. Chen, S., Amsili, P., & Liang, Y. In Jong-Bok, K., Zong, C., & Chersoni, E., editors, Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 35), pages 140–148, Shanghai, November, 2021. Association for Computational Lingustics. ![Inter-clausal Anaphora in Chinese Conditionals: a Multi-factorial Analysis [pdf]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/pdf.svg "pdf")
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Acl Conf abstract bibtex 12 downloads Chinese inter-clausal anaphora, as in Wo suiran xiang facai, keshi bugan maoxian. `I although want to get rich, yet don't dare to take risks' is considered `rather striking' (Chao, 1968) because of the way the subject can be fronted or not, which might come from reference patterns of the two clausal subjects. Previous corpus investigations (Xu (1995), Chen (2016), and others) have suggested a direct relationship between reference patterns (disjoint reference or co-reference between the two subjects) and the position of the subject. The present study explores other factors that might play a role in predicting the structure patterns. Corpus data for 25 conditional subordinators are grouped according to logic relations from Huang and Liao (2002). 8007 sentences were subject to the final statistical analysis, performed employing logistic regression models. In this model, it is found out that in predicting structure, the genre Newspaper is less likely than Literature in getting fronted structure; disjoint reference pattern is less likely to indicate fronted structure than conjoint reference pattern; NP in the first clausal subject position is more likely to be associated with fronted structure than other pronouns or wh-pronouns or personal pronouns; NP in the second clausal subject position is more likely to result in fronted structure than personal pronouns but less likely than zero pronouns in the same place; fronted subject in clause two is more likely to lead to fronted structure than un-fronted one. Motivations include topicality, accessibility, and others. Such model is possibly applicable to other types of inter-clausal anaphora.
@InProceedings{ chen21.paclic,
author = {Chen, Shunting and Amsili, Pascal and Liang, Yiming},
title = {Inter-clausal Anaphora in Chinese Conditionals: a
Multi-factorial Analysis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on
Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 35)},
year = 2021,
editor = {Kim Jong-Bok and Zong, Chengqing and Chersoni, Emmanuele},
month = nov,
publisher = "Association for Computational Lingustics",
pages = "140--148",
address = {Shanghai},
abstract = {Chinese inter-clausal anaphora, as in Wo suiran xiang
facai, keshi bugan maoxian. `I although want to get rich,
yet don't dare to take risks' is considered `rather
striking' (Chao, 1968) because of the way the subject can
be fronted or not, which might come from reference patterns
of the two clausal subjects. Previous corpus investigations
(Xu (1995), Chen (2016), and others) have suggested a
direct relationship between reference patterns (disjoint
reference or co-reference between the two subjects) and the
position of the subject. The present study explores other
factors that might play a role in predicting the structure
patterns. Corpus data for 25 conditional subordinators are
grouped according to logic relations from Huang and Liao
(2002). 8007 sentences were subject to the final
statistical analysis, performed employing logistic
regression models. In this model, it is found out that in
predicting structure, the genre Newspaper is less likely
than Literature in getting fronted structure; disjoint
reference pattern is less likely to indicate fronted
structure than conjoint reference pattern; NP in the first
clausal subject position is more likely to be associated
with fronted structure than other pronouns or wh-pronouns
or personal pronouns; NP in the second clausal subject
position is more likely to result in fronted structure than
personal pronouns but less likely than zero pronouns in the
same place; fronted subject in clause two is more likely to
lead to fronted structure than un-fronted one. Motivations
include topicality, accessibility, and others. Such model
is possibly applicable to other types of inter-clausal
anaphora.},
url_pdf = {../Docs/papers/chen21_paclic.pdf},
url_slides = {../Docs/talks/slides_chen21_paclic.pdf},
url_acl = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.paclic-1.15/},
url_conf = {https://corpus.shisu.edu.cn/corpusen/23/7c/c11222a140156/page.psp}
}
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