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endophorically

endophorically adverb: in an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text.

Adverb

endophorically (not comparable)

  1. In an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text.
    • The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in...1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language, volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518
    • Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal...2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature...
    Antonyms:
    exophorically

Antonyms of endophorically

Origin of endophorically

From endophoric + -ally.

Questions about endophorically

What does endophorically mean?
Endophorically means in an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text.
What part of speech is endophorically?
Endophorically is an adverb.

Words near endophorically in the dictionary

  1. endophora
  2. endophoras
  3. endophoria
  4. endophorias
  5. endophoric
  6. endophorically
  7. endophorics
  8. endophotocoagulation
  9. endophotocoagulations
  10. endophragma
  11. endophragmal

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