This article regards the concepts of substitute, anaphora and proform. In
literature, there frequently appears a theory that the terms previously named
“considerably overlap”, but Romanian grammar draws no clear boundaries
between these concepts. After the comparative analysis of the main definitions
for the concepts of substitute, anaphora/ anaphoric and proforms, I found that
the anaphors/ anaphoricals are a type of proforms and the proforms are a type
of substitute, which proves that the target terms are not equivalent
