cataphor

1. (medicine) Semicoma.countableuncountable

2. (medicine) Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.countableuncountable

3. (linguistics) The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.Examples: "Yet, all psycholinguistic studies, syntax processing, logic based grammars, poetry parsing and even formal parser construction, indicate that resolving anaphor is much easier than cataphor; we therefore collect an additional code point for any cataphor."; "It was hypothesized that the cataphor this would signal that a concept is likely to be mentioned again in the following story and that therefore the this-cataphor results in a higher activation."; "Here, the cataphor she refers to Susan. It is quite common to use the term “antecedent” also for an expression to which a cataphor refers."countableuncountable