Anaphoric epithet

Anaphoric epithet is a R-expression whose reference depends anaphorically upon some other element.

Examples

The intended co-referentiality in (i) turns the bastard into an anaphoric epithet. In (ii), the epithet the idiot is interpreted as a bound variable.

(i) [John's_i father] should have sent the bastard_i to reform school.

(ii) Every boy's_i father sends the idiot_i to school.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

Lasnik, H. 1989. A Restrictive Theory of Transformational Grammar. Theoretical Linguistics 4, .