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  • noun Plural form of anaphora.
  • noun Plural form of anaphor.

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Examples

  • The part on reciprocal anaphors (“anaphor”: highlighted while typing as misspelled!) sealed the deal for me.

    None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Precisely where does the descriptive material for these anaphors come from?

    Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

  • Correlatively, it has been suggested that temporal anaphors like

    Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

  • Near-side pragmatics includes, but is not limited to resolution of ambiguity and vagueness, the reference of proper names, indexicals and demonstratives, and anaphors, and at least some issues involving presupposition.

    Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006

  • The anaphoric view is compatible with descriptivism (for instance, Geurts [1997] is a proponent of both views), so long as definite descriptions are understood as anaphors (as they are in Heim

    Names Cumming, Sam 2009

  • Key among these theories are a class of approaches to anaphora in which anaphors are free variables which are bound by discourse operators of some form ” i.e., operators that have scope over the entire discourse ” or perhaps are interpreted by the model theory in such a way that the same effect ensues.

    Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

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