This document contains an analysis of anaphoric references, cataphoric references, and zero anaphora/ellipsis in a passage of text. It identifies 27 instances of referring expressions and their antecedents. It also provides 4 examples of referring expressions with their co-text, context, linguistic range of reference, and general context. The referring expressions identified include pronouns, noun phrases, and in one case the name of a country.

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ANAPHORIC REFERENCE
NAME: ___Dolores de la Luz Garduño Baeza____________ DATE: ___14/04/2020_______
LINE # ANAPHORA CATAPHORA ZERO ANAPHORA/ELLIPSIS
1
2
3 “There came through the open door
the heavy” (the studio)
4 “or the more delicate perfume
of the pink” (after the or came
through is understood to be
there)
5
6
7 “which he was lying, smoking,
as usual” (which is connected
with the divan of Persian
saddle-bags) /“smoking, as
usual, innumerable cigarretes”
8
9
10 “Whose temulous branches seemed
hardly able to bear the” (whose
being laburnum’s)
11 “Burden of a beauty so flame-like as
theirs” (theirs being the branches’)
12
13 “tussore-silk curtains that
were stretched in front of the
huge”
14
15 “and making him think” (him being
Lord Henry Wotton)
16 “seek to convey” (who seeks is
the jade-faced painters)
17 “the sense of swiftness and
motion.” (with the and is not
necessary to write “sense”
twice)
18
19 “or circling with monotonous
insistence round the” (or

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indicates the murmur of the
bees doing this)
20
21
22
23
24
25 “and in front of it, some little
distance” (it is the full length
portrait)
26 “was sitting the artist himself
Basil Hallward”
“some little distance away,
was sitting the artist” (no
necessary to write that the
portrait was away)
27 “whose sudden
disappearance, some years
ago, caused, at the time“
(caused is connected to whose
disappearance)
28 “and gave rise to so many
strange” (what gave rise was
the sudden disappearance)
29
30 “as he looked at the gracious
and comely form he had” (he
is Basil Hallward).
Identify the referring expressions and its range of reference, co-text and context in the
following examples.
Sentence Referring
Expression
Co-text
contexto
linguistico
Range of
reference
Context
Your ten-thirty just
cancelled.
Ten-thirty Just cancelled A person Meeting

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A couple of rooms have
complained about the heat.
Couple of
rooms
Have
complained
about the heat
The people
who are lodged
in the rooms
A hotel
Peel and slice six potatoes. Six potatoes Peel and slice The root
vegetables
The kitchen
The heart-attack mustn’t be
moved.
The heart
attack
Mustn’t be
moved
The patient The hospital
Brazil wins World Cup. Brazil Wins world cup The country Football