Background
Wasow, Thomas was born on December 14, 1945 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Wolfgang Richard Wasow and Gabrielle Emilie (Bernhard) Brill.
(Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric rel...)
Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements participating in an anaphoric relation and to determine correctly the meaning of the anaphor on the basis of meaning of the antecedent. If a grammar is to reflect the linguistic competence of a native speaker of a language, it must include mechanisms of associating anaphor and antecedent. In this volume the following questions will be considered: What sorts of mechanisms are best suited for representing anaphora in a grammar? What are the conditions on the rule(s) associating anaphors with antecedents? Do the various cases of anaphora form a linguistically significant class of phenomena, and, if so, how can the grammar capture this fact? And what do these answers entail for linguistic theory?
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Wasow, Thomas was born on December 14, 1945 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Wolfgang Richard Wasow and Gabrielle Emilie (Bernhard) Brill.
Bachelor, Reed College, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972.
Assistant professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1972-1973;
assistant professor, Stanford (California) U., 1973-1978;
associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1978-1985;
professor department linguistics, Stanford (California) U., since 1985. Director Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 1986-1987. Dean undergraduate studies Stanford University, 1987-1991.
Director Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford, since 1992.
(Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric rel...)
Married Judith Susan Lubarsky, May 23, 1971. Children: Molly Rebecca, Nina Rachel.