Cataphor
/ˈkatəfə/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Semicoma. countable, uncountable
- 2 Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness. countable, uncountable
- 3 The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence. countable, uncountable
"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."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Latin cataphora (“a coma”), from Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a bringing down, a lethargic attack”).