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What is the noun for anaphors?

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anaphora
  1. (rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
  2. (linguistics) An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context.
  3. (linguistics) An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
  4. (Christianity) The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Binding is concerned with the type of anaphora found with pronouns and reflexives, but the notion is greatly extended.”
      “Trying to make sense of this proposal leads to some interesting observations about grammaticality and anaphora.”
      “In similar examples involving not coordination but anaphora, it's much easier to get away with this sort of denotation switching.”
anaphor
  1. (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.
  2. Examples:
    1. “These were carried out for the annotation of anaphor types and their antecedents, and for the segmentation of the dialogues into dialogue acts.”
      “Sometimes the descriptive noun phrase has already been used in a previous clause, and to avoid repetition, the anaphor such is substituted.”
      “In other words, the domains in which a pronominal must be free are much more restricted than those in which an anaphor can be bound.”
anaphoricity
  1. The property of being anaphoric.
anaphora
  1. plural of anaphor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Binding is concerned with the type of anaphora found with pronouns and reflexives, but the notion is greatly extended.”
      “Trying to make sense of this proposal leads to some interesting observations about grammaticality and anaphora.”
      “In similar examples involving not coordination but anaphora, it's much easier to get away with this sort of denotation switching.”
anaphors
  1. plural of anaphora
  2. plural of anaphor
  3. Examples:
    1. “In these languages, first and second-person pronouns are used instead as bound anaphors.”
      “The twin problems of unresolved anaphors and cataphors are especially thorny.”
      “The domain from which potential antecedents for both individual and discourse-deictic anaphors can be elicited is defined in terms of dialogue acts.”
anaphoras
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