[Attempto] @anaphoric reference

[Alex Shkotin]

Hi Norbert,

actually playing around I have found a form needed (from paraphrase;):

There is a publication B5633.
 A year of the publication B5633 is 1946.
My idea is to introduce something pointing out its concept, and later
describe its features and relations.

and anyway "Socrat is a man." is a classical form of introduction to compare
with "There is a man Socrat."

Alex
2009/7/2 Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>

>
> On 2 Jul 2009, at 08:22, Alex Shkotin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> Let's take ACE: B5633 is a publication. A year of B5633 is 1946. A
>> first-page of the publication B5633 is 1.
>>
>> Question: why "the publication B5633" is not anaphoric reference to "B5633
>> is a publication"?
>>
>> see attached picture.
>>
>> I use phrase "the publication B5633" to make text more readable.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> Alex
>
> The explanation is simple. For details see section 2.1.15 of the ACE
> construction rules.
>
> In your example the first occurrence of B5633 is as a so-called bare
> variable that is a shortcut for "something B5633". Thus the variable
> basically stands for "something". The second occurrence of B5633 is as
> apposition to "publication". Now the same variable stands for "publication"
> which causes the error message.
>
> To express what you want you could, for instance, write:
>
> B5633 is a publication. A year of B5633 is 1946. A first-page of the
> publication is 1.
>
> But perhaps you would want to avoid associating B5633 with "something".
> Then you could write more concisely
>
> A year of the publication B5633 is 1946. A first-page of the publication
> B5633 is 1.
>
> or variants thereof.
>
> Regards.
>
>   --- nef
>
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