cataphors

Noun

cataphor (countable and uncountable, plural cataphors or cataphora)

1. Semicoma.
2. Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
3. The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.
   • 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.1990, Golumbic, Martin Charles, Advances in artificial intelligence : natural language and knowledge-based systems