Cataphor vs Anaphor - What's the difference?
cataphor | anaphor | Antonyms |
(medicine) Semicoma.
(medicine) Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness. (linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
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Anaphor is a antonym of cataphor.
As nouns the difference between cataphor and anaphor
is that cataphor is semicoma while anaphor is an expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.cataphor
English
(wikipedia cataphor)Noun
anaphor
English
(wikipedia anaphor)Noun
(en-noun)- Thus far, we have established that each other'' is an NP which functions as a
reciprocal anaphor''' requiring to take its reference from some antecedent else-
where in the sentence, and that ''themselves'' is an NP which functions as a re-
flexive ' anaphor which also requires an antecedent to take its reference from.