anaphor
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English
Etymology
Back-formation from anaphora.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.nə.fɔɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæ.nə.fə/, /ˈæ.nə.fɔː/
Noun
anaphor (plural anaphors or anaphora)
- (linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 117:
- Thus far, we have established that each other is an NP [noun phrase] which functions as a reciprocal anaphor requiring to take its reference from some antecedent elsewhere in the sentence, and that themselves is an NP which functions as a reflexive anaphor which also requires an antecedent to take its reference from.
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- (linguistics): endophor
Related terms
Translations
expression referring to other