Typology of Coreferential Possessive Anaphora and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: Implications for a Newly Designed Artificial Language
Published Online: Jan 01, 2017
Abstract
Coreferential possessive anaphora can be defined as a relation be- tween two linguistic expressions, one a possessive anaphor, and the other its antecedent, in which the possessive anaphor refers to what its antecedent refers to. This article presents a typology of coreferential possessive anaphora, on the basis of a preliminary investigation into a variety of genetically different and structurally distinct languages in the world. It also provides an analysis of coreferential possessive anaphora in terms of the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora, as constructed in Huang (2000a). Finally, coreferential possessive anaphora in Esparento will be examined, and implications for the construction of such anaphora in a newly designed artificial language will be discussed.