Sunday, 2 August 2015

Operative Decoding Clause With Anaphoric Reference

Then he felt a pulse of excitement at the thought that it might truly be Guy Vexille who rode unsuspecting towards the fight. “If it is Vexille,” Sir Guillaume said, … “then he’s mine to kill.”


if
it
is
Vexille

Token/Identified
Process: identifying
Value/Identifier

ref: anaphoric



The identity decodes it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fightby reference to Vexille.
Vexille identifies it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fight) — so identifying.
it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fightis not a member of the class Vexille — so not attributive.

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