anaphora

Examples

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• In the linguistics section, the first essay, by Paul Postal, examines various kinds of long-distance anaphora in English.

  Academic text (2006)

• The first and second lords' anaphoras point to the abstract inversion that Bertram will take as a personal advantage what is, in fact, a loss and to its reversed expression of crying over achievements.

  Academic text (2005)

• This characteristic is, I believe, quite typical of studies of anaphora.

  Academic text (2006)

• Based on intensive instruction in the strategy groups, third graders could successfully develop outstanding anaphora resolution skills.

  Academic text (2008)

• So Huang, in his impressively thorough survey of anaphora, cites one English case as an instance of LDA:

  Academic text (2006)

• In this example, the anaphora traces how Don Jaime's impressions of Elena change from the heavenly and natural to the ungodly and abhorrent.

  Academic text (2018)

• In linguistics, anaphora refers to using a pronoun to link back to a previously mentioned noun, such as in the sentence where 'he' refers to 'John'.

• To improve reading comprehension, students should learn about anaphora so they can identify how pronouns connect to earlier references.

Synonyms

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anaphor

vsanaphora

• Specialized

9.3

A word that refers back to a word said earlier, like 'she' or 'his'

names the practice of using a word to point back rather than the word

Surface Forms

Etymology