cataphor cataphora cataphora [Grk kataphorá ‘bringing down, downward motion’]

Term coined by K.Bühler (1934) in analogy to anaphora indicating a linguistic element which points to information immediately following the utterance. Such cataphoric elements of speech (deixis) include determiners, personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, and interrogative pronouns in questions, e.g. He who in He who laughs last laughs longest.