Anaphoric pronoun

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Anaphoric pronoun refers to a pronoun which 'refers back' to another constituent in the sentence.


If his in John loves his mother has the same referent as John, it is an anaphoric pronoun.


Pronouns which are not anaphoric pronouns are called deictic pronouns. Not to be confused with anaphor.


Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics