cataphor

Semicoma.

Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.

The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence.

Yet, all psycholinguistic studies, syntax processing, logic based grammars, poetry parsing and even formal parser construction, indicate that resolving anaphor is much easier than cataphor; we therefore collect an additional code point for any cataphor.

It was hypothesized that the cataphor this would signal that a concept is likely to be mentioned again in the following story and that therefore the this-cataphor results in a higher activation.