Meaning of cataphor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Semicoma.
   countable, uncountable
2. Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
   countable, uncountable
3. The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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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