Antecedent

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Antecedent refers to a element which determines the reference of another element.

Example

In the sentence

John loves his mother.

John is the antecedent of his if his is meant to refer to whatever John refers to (i.e. to John).

See also

Implication

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics