an article that is used for a semi-active referent. Example: in the Nguna text passage e tape araa ni nararo...go nararo wanogoe... '[he] took the branch of the nararo tree...and the aforementioned nararo tree...', wanogoe 'the aforementioned' is an anaphoric article. An anaphoric article is always used when the referent is semi-active because it has been previously referred to in the discourse. (Section 3.3.1)