Meanings
nounnull anaphora (plural null anaphoras)
plural null anaphoras
- human sciencesAn implied (but omitted) anaphora.
We have mentioned above that null anaphora is represented on syntactic trees as “pro”, and that this reflects the native speaker’s intuition that she or he somehow understands what is not overtly expressed and what the content of the null anaphora might be.
2006, Natsuko Tsujimura, An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
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