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Up to recently, the cataphora has not been the object of a theoretic reflection because its characteristics are subject to the functions of pronouns. According to a variety of its concepts introduced in Maillard, Bally and Dubois, the term "cataphora" designates every kind of contextual dependancy. Each example of cataphora has a following common feature: It is necessary to have recourse to the subsequent context in order to find out the referent of indexical expressions. In this study, we observe and verify the following findings: 1. The relation between a cataphora and its subsequent is not related to the syntactic dependancy, but it is a supplementary connection from the semantic point of view. 2. There exist certain types of semantic relation between these two constituents: direct, indirect or co-referential relation. 3. The relation is asymmetrical. In particular, we distinguish a segmental cataphora from a resumptive cataphora after the extension of the subsequent, and an intra-clausal cataphora from a trans-clausal cataphora according to the textual aspect determined by the relation. The confrontation of cataphora with the right dislocation not only makes the status of cataphora transparency-oriented, but also represents the affinity of cataphora with the acts of language. We finally observe that the non-denomination category and the ontological distinction of second or third ordering element could also play an important role in the theory of cataphora.