Re: The word 'anaphora' (WAS: A fairy tale)

[Chris Handley <cbmvax!uunet!GANDALF.OTAGO.AC.NZ!CHandley>]

Hi
>> > Tsk, tsk. "anaphora" is a plural word, hence "anaphora _are_ ...". > >
>Thank you pedant. I don't often get these wrong - and in fact I wrote >
>under the impression that "anaphora" was also the term for the process > of
>using anaphors.  If it isn't, what is the term, somebody?
>
>ANAPHORA (ANAPHORIC) A term used in grammatical description for the process
>or result of a linguistic unit referring back to come previously expressed
>unit or meaning. `Anaphoric reference' is one way of marking the identity
>between what is being expressed and what has already been expressed.
>

Blush, shame, crawl, etc. I was misled by my memory.

Chris Handley                                     chandley@otago.ac.nz
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