anaphoricadj.n.

1790 V. Knox Winter Evenings (ed. 2) II. xxxv. 240 They tell us there are three sorts [sc. of prologue]; the hypothetic, the systatic, and the anaphoric..; and the anaphoric, refutes objections, recriminates opposers, or returns thanks to the audience.

1872 Academy 15 June 238/2 The early Aryan speech appears to have been destitute of a relative pronoun, and it was maintained that the root yá in Sanskrit had originally only an ‘anaphoric’ sense.

1914 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. i. x. 247 I propose to apply the word anaphoric to one (or any other word) if it refers to some word already mentioned, while I say independent if there is no such contextual reference.

1974 Hispania 57 226/2 This episode is held together syntactically by anaphoric repetition of key phrases.

2007 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 127 6 The pronouns for far deixis are not frequently used, the anaphoric pronouns being more often employed instead.

1951 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 17 175/1 Taγa- and tama- are anaphorics.

1960 S. Stubelius Balloon 28 While machine was from the outset the standard anaphoric for the aeroplane in the press, apparatus was only occasionally used.

2005 Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 81 64 The use of the anaphorics, cataphorics and deictics..when characters make reference to some event in the play to clarify the situation.

1971 Ling. Inq. 2 350 It seems that the the of (i) [sc. in the sentence: On the table were the two books which I'd been searching for] is due not to anaphoricity, but to definitivization by relativization.

2014 Historische Sprachforschung 127 118 The development of object agreement in Lycian comes down to two changes: the loss of anaphoricity of the original pronoun and the loss of host promiscuity.