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anaptyxis 25<br />

by word-order). The term is seen in opposition to synthetic (and sometimes<br />

also polysynthetic) languages (which include agglutinative and<br />

inflecting types), where words typically contain more than one morpheme.<br />

Several languages of South-East Asia illustrate analyticity in their word structure.<br />

As always in such classifications, the categories are not clear-cut: different<br />

languages will display the characteristic of analyticity to a greater or lesser<br />

degree.<br />

(2) Considerable use is made in semantics of the sense of ‘analytic’ found in<br />

logic and philosophy, where an analytic proposition/sentence is one whose grammatical<br />

form and lexical meaning make it necessarily true, e.g. Spinsters are<br />

unmarried women. The term contrasts with synthetic, where the truth of the<br />

proposition is established using empirical criteria.<br />

analyticity (n.)<br />

see analytic<br />

anaphor (n.) A term used in government-binding theory to refer to a type<br />

of noun phrase which has no independent reference, but refers to some other<br />

sentence constituent (its antecedent). Anaphors include reflexive pronouns<br />

(e.g. myself ), reciprocal pronouns (e.g. each other), and np-traces. Along<br />

with pronominals and lexical noun phrases (R-expressions), anaphors are<br />

of particular importance as part of a theory of binding: in this context, an<br />

anaphor must be bound in its governing category (‘condition A’). The term<br />

has a more restricted application than the traditional term anaphoric. See also<br />

anaphora.<br />

anaphora (n.) A term used in grammatical description for the process<br />

or result of a linguistic unit deriving its interpretation from some previously<br />

expressed unit or meaning (the antecedent). Anaphoric reference is one way of<br />

marking the identity between what is being expressed and what has already<br />

been expressed. In such a sentence as He did that there, each word has an<br />

anaphoric reference (i.e. they are anaphoric substitutes, or simply anaphoric<br />

words): the previous sentence might have been John painted this picture in<br />

Bermuda, for instance, and each word in the response would be anaphorically<br />

related to a corresponding unit in the preceding context. Anaphora is often<br />

contrasted with cataphora (where the words refer forward), and sometimes<br />

with deixis or exophora (where the words refer directly to the extralinguistic<br />

situation). It may, however, also be found subsuming both forwards- and<br />

backwards-referring functions. The process of establishing the antecedent of<br />

an anaphor is called anaphora (or anaphor) resolution, and is an important<br />

research aim in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. See also<br />

anaphor, zero.<br />

anaphoric (adj.)<br />

anaptyctic (adj.)<br />

see anaphora<br />

see anaptyxis<br />

anaptyxis /anapct}ks}s/ (n.) A term used in comparative philology, and sometimes<br />

in phonology, to refer to a type of intrusion, where an extra vowel<br />

has been inserted between two consonants; a type of epenthesis. Anaptyctic

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