InEnglish grammar, "anaphora" is the use of apronounor other linguistic unit to refer back to another word or phrase. The adjective is anaphoric, and the term is also known by the phrases anaphoric reference or backward anaphora. A word that gets its meaning from a preceding word or phrase...
1.(Grammar)grammarthe use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentenceJohn wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home,bothdidanditare examples of anaphora. Comparecataphora,exophoric ...
1.(Grammar)grammarthe use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentenceJohn wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home,bothdidanditare examples of anaphora. Comparecataphora,exophoric ...
(grammar) the use of a word that refers to or replaces another word used earlier in a sentence, for example the use of ‘does’ in the sentence ‘I disagree and so does John’Topics Languagec2 Take your English to the next level The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the differen...
Examples:1.Billhastwogirlfriends,abeautifulandevil,andauglyandkind.Thegapinthephrase"abeautifulandevil[gap]"istheanaphorfortheantecedent"twogirlfriends";thetwophrasesaresaidtohaveazero-anaphoricrelationship.Similarly,thephrase"auglyandkind[gap]"containsanothergapanaphor.2.知らない。気に入った？Idon't...
In indirect anaphora, an anaphor and an antecedent have different but relevant references. 在间接回指中,回指语与先行语虽指称不同却有关联。 Pronominal anaphora and zero anaphora are unmarked personal anaphoric patterns in both English and Chinese. 英汉语无标记性的人称回指手段包括代词回指和零形回...
The nominal (often called N') ellipsis construction in English includes an understood material other than the remaining determiner. This elliptical NP tends to occur in contexts where its antecedent exhibits a similar or parallel structure. Popular analyses have derived such ...
InEnglish grammar, "anaphora" is the use of apronounor other linguistic unit to refer back to another word or phrase. The adjective is anaphoric, and the term is also known by the phrases anaphoric reference or backward anaphora. A word that gets its meaning from a preceding word or phrase...
(John Hollander, "Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse". Yale University Press, 1989) "Here comesthe shadow not looking where it is going, And the whole night will fall; it is time. Here comesthe little wind which the hour
Sections 1.2 and 2.2 deal with predicate adverbials, and argue that a predicate adverbial is either included in or excluded from the antecedent of a sentential anaphor, which depends upon the context, or the speaker-hearer's pragmatic knowledge. Observe the following examples, where in (2a) ...