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anaphor
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n.1.a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent.
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Noun1.anaphor - a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
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I, you, me, his, her), and anaphors or reflexives (e.
Linguistic theory and research based language intervention by Wilson, Mary Sweig / The Exceptional Parent
The class of anaphors comprises also an instance of the anaphoric possessive swoj, inflected for case, number and gender, for example: 10) SWOj ACC/SING/MASC dom (his/her/their, etc.
Inverse binding and the status of the Spec. TP position in Polish by Tajsner, Przemyslaw / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Hardt (1999) remarks that the Government and Binding Theory keeps the quotidian selves of anaphors in subjection in the sense that they are only excused from backward reference if they stand in a non-c-commanding relation to their antecedents.
A glance at the true self of Shakespearean ellipsis by Nykiel, Joanna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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