Cataphoric relation

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In semantics, cataphoric relation is the coreference relation between a pronoun and a noun phrase which follows the pronoun.

Example

In Everyone who knows her loves Mary the NP Mary can corefer with the pronoun her.

See also

backward anaphora

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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