Re: The opposite of resumptive

Eldin Raigmore wrote:

>> I'm stumbling on a grammatical term. Everybody knows what a resumptive
>> pronoun is, it sums up something that has already been mentioned in a
>> sentence or a conversation. Now, how do I call a pronoun or an
>> expression that is used as a shorthand for something that still has to
>> be expressed?
> I'm not sure what the difference is between "resumptive" and "anaphoric";
> but based on my not-necessarily-correct formerly existing impression, what
> you are calling "resumptive" is what I had been calling "anaphoric".
>
> An "anaphoric" pronoun carries one back to what has been said before.
> Its opposing notion is a "cataphoric" pronoun, which stands for something
> to be mentioned in more detail later.
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Google says (A research on Google showed me) that there is no difference
between "resumptive" and "anaphoric". I found the same definition with
identical examples for both of them.

And "cataphoric" is exactly the term I was looking for.

Now, I only need a term to describe "either anaphoric or cataphoric". I
was thinking of "substitutive". **Phoric pronouns are always substitutes
for something, I haven't found other something-phoric words that could
fit, and "substitutive" doesn't need extensive explanations. (Lucky me!)
  ;-)

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