From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Sat Mar 28 01:04:12 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Sat, 28 Mar 92 01:04 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA08074; Sat, 28 Mar 92 00:56:37 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA06535; Sat, 28 Mar 92 00:45:48 -0500 Message-Id: <9203280545.AA06535@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5953; Sat, 28 Mar 92 00:45:10 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf016) id 9632; Sat, 28 Mar 92 00:44:56 EST Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1992 15:43:07 +1000 Reply-To: Major Sender: Lojban list From: Major Subject: The word 'anaphora' (WAS: A fairy tale) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: CJ FINE's message of Thu, 26 Mar 1992 10:56:36 GMT <199203261818.AA28094@pta.pyramid.com.au> Status: RO CJ FINE writes: > > 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. David Crystal A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (2ed) Major