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Definition of Anaphoric pronoun
1. Noun. A pronoun that refers to an antecedent.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anaphoric Pronoun
Literary usage of Anaphoric pronoun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"(3) The unemphatic use, as it may be called, in which it is an ordinary Anaphoric
Pronoun of the Third Person (Eng. /te, she, it). ..."
2. Verner's Law in Italy: An Essay in the History of the Indo-European Sibilants by Robert Seymour Conway (1887)
"... but in Oscan, as in Latin is, the anaphoric pronoun is occasionally used as
a demonstrative adjective (TB 7 ..."
3. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"comes the Latin ' anaphoric ' pronoun (ie the pronoun which refers to something
previously mentioned), г* M., ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"... where the Chinese has two different words to our one: in the anaphoric pronoun
we have three words to the Chinese one. Both languages are in this ..."
5. The Principles of Sound and Inflexion as Illustrated in the Greek and Latin by John Edward King, Christopher Cookson (1888)
"... etc., while an anaphoric pronoun picks up what is already known or has been
previously spoken of. Our own term Demonstrative, then, includes much that ..."
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