From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Sun Mar 29 22:05:30 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Sun, 29 Mar 92 22:05 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA13748; Sun, 29 Mar 92 20:36:31 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA21371; Sun, 29 Mar 92 17:25:20 -0500 Message-Id: <9203292225.AA21371@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1313; Sun, 29 Mar 92 17:24:43 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf016) id 0649; Sun, 29 Mar 92 17:24:27 EST Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 10:23:54 GMT+1200 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!otago.ac.nz!chandley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Subject: Re: The word 'anaphora' (WAS: A fairy tale) X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMA.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO 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 Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ