In this paper, I inquire into the appositive NP and the similar constuructions to establish the concept of apposition and classify the appositive NP based on the kinds of co-reference.
Apposition is defined as a phenomenon that two or more NPs whic...
In this paper, I inquire into the appositive NP and the similar constuructions to establish the concept of apposition and classify the appositive NP based on the kinds of co-reference.
Apposition is defined as a phenomenon that two or more NPs which are co-referential extralinguistically are apposed without an intermediate linguistic forms. An appositive construction(=appositive NP) is defined as an NP constituent which is formed by apposition and appositives are defined as NPs which are in appositive construction respectively.
Apposition meeting the following three conditions, we term full apposition: (ⅰ) Each of the appositives can be separately omitted without affecting the acceptability of the sentence. (ⅱ) Each fulfils the same syntactic function in the resultant sentences. (ⅲ) It can be assumed that there is no difference between the original sentence and either of the resultant sentences in extralinguistic reference. An appositive NP which violates one(or more) condition(s), we term it partial apposition.
We classify the co-reference into a semantic one and a pragmatic one. And we classify it into independent co-reference, unilateral co-reference and mutual co-reference according to whether each appositive is confirmed co-referential independently or whether an appositive is confirmed co-referential by the other or whether each appositive is confirmed co-referential by the two mutually.