Anaphoric Pronoun

An Anaphoric Pronoun is a pronoun that is also an anaphor (is anaphoric to some antecedent).

• AKA: Pronomial Anaphor.
• Context:
  • It can (generally) unambiguously refer to an Anaphor Antecedent.
  • It can be a Possessive Determiners, and Demonstrative Pronouns.
  • It can be resolved by an Anaphora Resolution Task.
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• Example(s):
  • “he”, “she”
  • “her”, “his”
  • “herself”
  • “it”, as in ...
  • “they”
• Counter-Example(s):
  • “it”, as in ...
  • a Definite Noun Phrase Anaphor.
• See: Anaphor.

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References

2009

• http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/milca/courses/comsem/xhtml/d0e1-gloss.xhtml
  • anaphoric pronoun Anaphoric pronouns are pronoun that refer back to textual antecedents.

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