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Anaphora (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, anaphora is an instance of an expression referring to another. In general, an anaphoric expression is represented by a pro-form or some kind of deictic. In some theories, the strict ...
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This paper presents a simple mechanism for the resolution of anaphora in limited domain natural language systems. ... This mechanism provides functionality equivalent to the natural communication mechanism of anaphora as used and understood by people, but without the deep inferencing or cognitive modelling required for...
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successive clauses or sentences start with the same word(s) ... The same word or phrase is used to begin successive clauses or sentences. Thus, the reader's / listener's attention is drawn directly to the message of the sentence. ... Anaphora is often used in conjunction with parallelism or climax...
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Anaphora is coreference of one expression with its antecedent. The antecedent provides the information necessary for the expression’s interpretation. ... The term anaphora is also sometimes used to include both anaphora, as defined here, and cataphora. When it is used that way, it becomes synonymous with endophora.
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I know I’ll see the word again, and again, and if I look it up later, I’ll have memory of it being used in many contexts already. ... I’m used to tones being used supersegmentally, to give contour to sentences. It was hard to abandon this- I was giving “mid” tone words an English-style contour. I didn’t notice...
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(rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis. ... In linguistics, the terms anaphor and anaphora are sometimes used interchangeably, although in some theories, a distinction is made between them. See the Wikipedia article.
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The idea that one-anaphora is used in the context of particular discourse functions has been noted in the literature before: Dahl; [1985] and LuperFoy [1991:114–159] both dis-cuss this aspect of one-anaphora at some length.
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