NOUN
- a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
How To Use anaphor In A Sentence
- However, a contextually prominent action can not justify the use of a surface anaphor, such as I did, yesterday.
- Adopting the definition of binding domain of Chomsky (1986), it is clear that the subject is in the local domain of the anaphor.
- This turns out to be unexplained under the pronominal anaphor account: if a long-distance reflexive were a pronominal anaphor, it would be expected to be bound in the matrix sentence.
- Through alliteration, anaphora, parallelism and slant-rhyme, Sleigh builds momentum into the eleven, rhythmic couplets and suggests a train's smooth travel.
- Anaphoric binding relations are conditioned by a number of different factors, one of which is the verb, which may be marked for reflexivisation and may determine the binding domain of reflexives and pronouns which occur within its nucleus.
- In the latter case, a referential anaphor refers to what its antecedent refers to; the anaphor is thus said to be coreferential with its antecedent.
- In the case of ellipsis and anaphoric (and cataphoric) pronouns the designation is determined, or at least constrained, by the linguistic context of the utterance, while the designation of deictic demonstratives is fixed by contextual extralinguistic facts. Pragmatics
- In these languages, first and second-person pronouns are used instead as bound anaphors.
- A common solution appears to be simply to delete the dangling references from the summary, or, failing that, to pick up the preceding or subsequent sentence from the source text and hope that the anaphor or cataphor is resolved.
- But anaphora has never been taken seriously as a diagnostic for such a distinction.