Abstract
<jats:p>An antecedent referring to a group of syntactically related words, in which the subordinate member is functionally equivalent to the group, is an endocentric antecedent. The elliptation of the noun from the antecedent is enabled by the context, for that reason the forcedness of the antecedent is crucial in achieving the specificity of the referent and the informativeness of the discourse. The focus of this paper is the referential anaphora of the anacataphoric endocentric antecedent expressed by a demonstrative pronoun (Ex. Boccaccio is the one who was the first to bring Dante to the square). The endophoric antecedent (that) first anaphorically refers to its own noun (Boccaccio), i.e. to a referent who is unique, which makes the anaphora referential. Then, he cataphorically refers to the content of the relative clause, which represents a new relevant provision of an already determined referential expression and contributes to the informativeness of the statement. In such examples, the anacataphoric endocentric antecedent with the adjective relative clause is in fact the predicate of the superior clause, i.e. represents a predicative clause. If the copula, endocentric antecedent and relativizer were annulled, an independent sentence would be obtained and the informativeness of the statement would not be endangered (for example, Boccaccio was the first to bring Dante to the square). An independent sentence is an alternative to the relative one in the communicative sense, however, the expressiveness of the statement, which was achieved by emphasizing the subject by its reduplication in the relative sentence, is impaired. So the reasons are stylistic.</jats:p>