dispute. Many languages share the following issue with English: the generic antecedent is a representative individual of a class, whose gender is unknown...

In grammar, an antecedent is one or more words that establish the meaning of a pronoun or other pro-form. For example, in the sentence "John arrived late...

which a pro-form refers Generic antecedent, representatives of classes, referred to in ordinary language by another word Antecedent (law), the history of...

languages Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Generic antecedent Pronoun game Feminist language reform LGBT linguistics Gender neutrality...

Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns Generic antecedent Third-person pronoun See reverential capitalization Huddleston, Rodney;...

musical works being incorporated into a new one. Antecedent (grammar) Exemplification Generic antecedent Hyperlink Indexicality ISO 690 Recommendation letter...

situationPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Generic antecedent – Representatives of classes in a situation in which gender is typically...

(scientific studies) Faulty generalization Generic (disambiguation) Critical thinking Generic antecedent Hasty generalization Inheritance (object-oriented...

epicene. Gender marking in job titles Gender neutrality in English Generic antecedent Male as norm Unisex name Look up epicene in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...

in context (its antecedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent expression and thus...

gender-neutral third-person pronoun. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group...

self-reference. Deixis – Words requiring context to understand their meaning Generic antecedent – Representatives of classes in a situation in which gender is typically...

either to the person entering the names, or to one of the names. Generic antecedent – Representatives of classes in a situation in which gender is typically...

expression or word that co-refers with a later, more specific, expression Generic antecedent – Representatives of classes in a situation in which gender is typically...

Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender marking in job titles Generic antecedent Markedness Unisex name You § Plural forms from other varieties Chappell...

translation Gender binary Gender neutrality Gender role Genderless language Generic antecedent Inclusive language International Gender and Language Association,...

antecedent. For example, in the sentence That poor man looks as if he needs a new coat, the meaning of the pronoun he is dependent on its antecedent,...

such as khlah 'some', pii-bey 'a few', and so on. Count noun Elohim Generic antecedent Grammatical agreement Grammatical conjugation Grammatical person Inflection...

titles Gender bias on Wikipedia Harem effect (science) Honorary male Generic antecedent Global Gender Gap Report Male as norm Phillips, Debby A.; Phillips...

starts in a way that a reader's likely interpretation will be wrong Generic antecedent – Representatives of classes in a situation in which gender is typically...

ourselves, etc.). This typically refers back to a noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same clause (for example, She cut herself). This form is also...

Jamieson's "Antecedent Genre as Rhetorical Constraint" declares that discourse is determined by the Rhetorical Situation, as well as antecedent genres. Antecedent...

the antecedent). The pronoun may then be said to "replace" or "stand for" the antecedent, and to be used so as to avoid repeating the antecedent. Some...

contexts where an antecedent precedes it. In the case of the reciprocals, they need to appear in the same clause as the antecedent. Today, the English...

relative pronouns, were chosen according to the grammatical gender of their antecedent. Old English grammatical gender was, as in other Germanic languages, remarkably...

Chandler, A. Marasso, T. Somerville and T. Bodenmüller, the primary antecedent influence for the picaresque genre. Subsequently, following the example...

assumes that behavior is either a reflex elicited by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual's history...

of a sequent are called the antecedent and the succedent respectively. The customary metavariable denoting an antecedent or part thereof is Γ, and for...

verb form are co-refer with the singular noun band. One can think of the antecedent of they as an implied plural noun such as musicians. Such use in English...

elements of the supernatural or paranormal. As Jan Brunvand points out, antecedent legends including some of the motifs, themes and symbolism of the urtexts...