0 a word that refers to a word used earlier in a sentence and replaces it, for example the word "it" in the sentence "Joe dropped a glass and it broke." --
However, it does refer, as is evident from the subsequent anaphor his which refers back to the dependent (a testator).
The categories noun-verb and anaphor- verb are the most complex and informative.
The culprit appears to be the morphological distinction of anaphors and pronouns.
Three factors in particular have been shown to influence anaphoric resolution: ease of antecedent identifiability, topic continuity/discourse focus, and distance between anaphor and antecedent.
This is indicated by the anaphor his, which refers back to man, not to man's shirt.
Consequently, a pronominal anaphor becomes the most appropriate marker for thematic continuity.
The findings showed that students who were not performing well academically were not skilled at resolving anaphors.
By contrast, (3b) shows that an element scrambled long distance cannot serve as the antecedent of a lexical anaphor.
