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antecedent Definitie in het Nederlands

0 someone or something existing or happening before, especially as the cause or origin of something existing or happening later: --
- In the sentence "He picked a book off the shelf and handed it to Sally", "book" is the antecedent of "it".
- Many people feel a great curiosity to find out about their antecedents.
- Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.
1 previous: --
- When the college was established in 1546, it inherited a hall from each of three antecedent institutions.
2 something existing or happening before, esp. as the cause of an event or situation: --
- In the sentence, "Joe threw the ball to Wendy, and Wendy threw it back," "the ball" is the antecedent of "it."
- The book dealt with the historical antecedents of the Civil War.

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The ultimate achievement of cognitive archaeology would be to provide descriptions of the cognitive life-world of human antecedents at many points in evolution.
The following examples involve a variety of quantified antecedents (including, notably, the negative quantifier no).
Examples (9), (10) and (11a) are all cases of split antecedents.
The harsh antiparty politics and discourse of the 1973 military dictatorship had proximate historical antecedents.
Competencies such as technical capabilities, skills and knowledge are also necessary antecedents for the building of trust in the professional setting of business exchange.
Because of their important political effects, there has been plenty of research on the antecedents of political predispositions.
Obstetric complications as antecedents of schizophrenia : empirical effects of using different obstetric complication scales.
Who gained ground with those in cataphora only once it had been established as the relative for personal antecedents.

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