Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anaphoricity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: anaphoric-i-ty
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The property of being anaphoric.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I am not sure if Hankamer is right in claiming this property for it, but the allied concepts of unstressability and complete anaphoricity certainly are of use in distinguishing relative from interrogative pronouns, particularly undeclined relatives like pu which carry no information about the number, gender, or case of the NP they replace."
"We present a discriminative model for single-document summarization that integrally combines compression and anaphoricity constraints."

Etymology

From anaphoric + -ity.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: anaphoric

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does anaphoricity mean?: The property of being anaphoric.
Where does anaphoricity come from?: From anaphoric + -ity.

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