In linguistics, cataphora (; from Greek, , kataphora, “a downward motion” from , kata, “downwards” and , phero, “I carry”) is the use of an expression or word that co-refers with a later, more specific, expression in the discourse. The preceding expression, whose meaning is determined or specified by the later expression, may be called a cataphor. Cataphora is a type of anaphora (and cataphors are a type of anaphors), although the terms anaphora and anaphor are sometimes used in a stricter sense, denoting only cases where the order of the expressions is the reverse of that found in cataphora.