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null anaphora

null anaphora noun: an implied (but omitted) anaphora.

Noun

null anaphora (plural null anaphoras)

  1. An implied (but omitted) anaphora.
    • We have mentioned above that null anaphora is represented on syntactic trees as “pro”, and that this reflects the native speaker’s intuition that she or he somehow understands what is not overtly expressed and what the content of the null anaphora might be.2006, Natsuko Tsujimura, An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

Forms of null anaphora

pluralnull anaphoras

Questions about null anaphora

What does null anaphora mean?
Null anaphora means an implied (but omitted) anaphora.
What part of speech is null anaphora?
Null anaphora is a noun.
What is the plural of null anaphora?
The plural of null anaphora is null anaphoras.

Words near null anaphora in the dictionary

  1. nuledes
  2. nulhomotopic
  3. nuliparous
  4. Nulkaba
  5. null
  6. null anaphora
  7. null anaphoras
  8. null and void
  9. null character
  10. null characters
  11. null determiner

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