Definition of Anaphor. Meaning of Anaphor. Synonyms of Anaphor

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Definition of Anaphor

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Anaphora
Anaphora A*naph"o*ra, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to carry up or back; ? + ? to carry.] (Rhet.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Meaning of Anaphor from wikipedia

- (referring) term is called an anaphor. For example, in the sentence Sally arrived, but nobody saw her, the pronoun her is an anaphor, referring back to the antecedent...
- cataphor. Cataphora is a type of anaphora, although the terms anaphora and anaphor are sometimes used in a stricter sense, denoting only cases where the order...
- [citation needed] For instance in the English sentence "Mary saw herself", the anaphor "herself" is bound by its antecedent "Mary". Binding can be licensed or...
- occurrence is known as the antecedent and the other is called a proform, anaphor, or reference. However, pronouns can sometimes refer forward, as in "When...
- In semantics, donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is semantically bound) but whose syntactic role in the sentence...
- classification of noun phrases in binding theory, the other two being anaphors and pronominals. According to principle C of binding theory, R-expressions...
- refers to the binding of an anaphor and its antecedent which must occur within its local domain. Principle A states that anaphors must be bound in their local...
- English are one another and each other, and they form the category of anaphors along with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourselves, themselves, etc.). Reflexive...
- external to the one in which the logophor resides. The specially-formed anaphors that are morphologically distinct from the typical pronouns of a language...
- pronouns in English (such as himself and each other) are referred to as anaphors (in a specialized restricted sense) rather than as pronominal elements...