cataphor

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English

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Etymology

From Latin cataphora (“a coma”), from Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a bringing down, a lethargic attack”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cataphor (countable and uncountable, plural cataphors or cataphora)

  1. (medicine) Semicoma.
  2. (medicine) Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
  3. (linguistics) The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.
    • 1990, Golumbic, Martin Charles, Advances in artificial intelligence : natural language and knowledge-based systems‎:
      Yet, all psycholinguistic studies, syntax processing, logic based grammars, poetry parsing and even formal parser construction, indicate that resolving anaphor is much easier than cataphor; we therefore collect an additional code point for any cataphor.
    • 2001, Text representation : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects‎:
      It was hypothesized that the cataphor this would signal that a concept is likely to be mentioned again in the following story and that therefore the this-cataphor results in a higher activation.
    • 2015, Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval - A Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts‎:
      Here, the cataphor she refers to Susan. It is quite common to use the term “antecedent” also for an expression to which a cataphor refers.
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