Cataphor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkatəfə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cataphor is a noun meaning (medicine) Semicoma.
Meaning
(medicine) Semicoma.
More Meanings
- (medicine) Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
- (linguistics) The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- cataphors
- cataphora
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caconymy, cyma, canephor, semicupium, categorem, caconym.
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