Sentence examples for antecedent meaning from inspiring English sources
What is important for explication is not antecedent meaning but function.
According to Table 2, G1 events are associated with relatively short-duration rainfall, with low peak and mean rainfall intensities, and low antecedent rainfall, meaning that mass movements occurred in spite of these conditions.
At the same time, the truths determined give meaning to the antecedent as their reason, and the things determined give context to the prior as their ground.
For Boethius, both kinds of consequences, natural and accidental, entail inseparability, roughly meaning that the antecedent cannot be true while the consequent is false (i.e. a version of (TP)), but natural consequences entail something more, namely a real causal, metaphysical connection between the items in question.
I learned the term "epicene pronoun," meaning the genderless plural "they" or "their" when its antecedent calls for the singular (and gendered) "he or she" or "his or hers".
Meaning: appropriately modest.
"We" meaning the justices?
Yang et al. argue that this indicates that the prominence of referents in a discourse, and hence the assignment of antecedents to discourse anaphora, is "more sensitive to syntactic factors than was previously recognized" (Yang et al. 2003 286), and it is not simply meaning that guides the processing of discourse anaphora, contra Li and Thompson (1979 5.
