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anaphoricity

anaphoricity noun: the property of being anaphoric.

Noun

anaphoricity (uncountable)

  1. The property of being anaphoric.
    • I am not sure if Hankamer is right in claiming this property for it, but the allied concepts of unstressability and complete anaphoricity certainly are of use in distinguishing relative from interrogative pronouns, particularly undeclined relatives like pu which carry no information about the...1978, Ellen Kaisse, “On the Notion 'Complete Anaphoric' in Phonology”, in The Annual Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, page 341
    • We present a discriminative model for single-document summarization that integrally combines compression and anaphoricity constraints.2016, Greg Durrett, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein, “Learning-Based Single-Document Summarization with Compression and Anaphoricity Constraints”, in arXiv

Origin of anaphoricity

From anaphoric + -ity.

Questions about anaphoricity

What does anaphoricity mean?
Anaphoricity means the property of being anaphoric.
What part of speech is anaphoricity?
Anaphoricity is a noun.

Words near anaphoricity in the dictionary

  1. anaphoric
  2. anaphoric macro
  3. anaphoric macros
  4. anaphorical
  5. anaphorically
  6. anaphoricity
  7. anaphors
  8. anaphrodisia
  9. anaphrodisiac
  10. anaphrodisiacal
  11. anaphrodisiacs

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