| anaphora (linguistics) |
| Definition - When words refer back to preceding words. |
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Example - In the sentence although the dog had been damaged, it could still bark, the anaphoric it refers back to the word dog. |
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Etymology - The word means "carrying back" in Greek. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation in its linguistics' sense is from 1933: "The word one … replaces a with anaphora of the noun when no other modifier is present (Here are some apples; take one)." (Bloomfield Language xvi. 266) |