cataphor

plural cataphors · plural cataphora

1. countableuncountablemedicineSemicoma.
2. countableuncountablemedicineSomnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.

   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.

   2015, Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval - A Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts

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   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.

   1990, Golumbic, Martin Charles, Advances in artificial intelligence : natural language and knowledge-based systems

   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.

   2001, Text representation : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects