单词 | anaphor |
释义 | anaphorn. Grammar and Linguistics. A word or phrase which refers to, or is a substitute for, another word or phrase in a text or conversation (e.g. in my cousin said she was leaving, she is used as an anaphor for my cousin); (sometimes spec.) a word or phrase which refers back to a preceding word or phrase. Cf. anaphora n. 1b.In Chomsky's Government and Binding Theory, an anaphor is a type of noun phrase (esp. a reflexive or reciprocal pronoun) which has no independent reference and needs the proximity of another noun phrase for the sentence to be grammatical. ΚΠ 1971 College Composition & Communication 22 82/1 In both sentences the failure of the anaphor (‘they’, ‘it’) to agree in number with its antecedent (‘the university’, ‘riches’) leads to a notable loss of clarity. 1990 Amer. Speech 65 51 In this framework, reflexive pronouns are anaphors and are therefore subject to the Anaphors Binding Condition. 2014 Philos. Stud. 168 Special Issue 42 In implicit anaphora,..the antecedent of the anaphor is not introduced via linguistic means. Instead, the extra-linguistic context makes salient an entity or concept that a speaker can subsequently refer back to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1971 |
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