Definitions
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- noun a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent.
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- noun linguistics An
expression refering to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in thediscourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
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- noun a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
Etymologies
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Examples
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An anaphor is a pronoun that refers to some other entity in the discourse, and a reciprocal anaphor is one that refers to each of the members of that entity.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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The part on reciprocal anaphors (“anaphor”: highlighted while typing as misspelled!) sealed the deal for me.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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So to help the reader out, Yanni actually restarts the question with an anaphor replacing the giant noun phrase.
Yanni illustrates an important point about grammar « Motivated Grammar 2008
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For example, ˜he™ appears to be used as an unbound anaphor in discourse (3) and ˜she™ seems to be so used in
Again 2009
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In effect, one can take a temporal anaphor as standing proxy for a when-clause and a modal anaphor like
Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007
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In both cases, we will find interpretative dependencies reminiscent of the dependency relation between an anaphor and its antecedent, and we will describe, if only in outline, how basic DRT has been extended so as to explain the similarities.
Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007
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With respect to finding an antecedent for an anaphor, for example, the interaction of the constraints explains the general tendency to look for the referent in the immediately preceding discourse rather than in the more remote fragments or, rather than constructing a referent ad hoc.
Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics Jaszczolt, K. M. 2006
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If you’ll excuse a bit of linguistic terminology, (3b) shows that none can take the reciprocal anaphor each other.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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You can’t use a reciprocal anaphor unless its referent can be thought of as a plural set.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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(You’d use myself, a reflexive anaphor, instead.) None can be thought as a plural set, but not one apparently can’t.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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