coreference
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editcoreference (countable anduncountable,pluralcoreferences)
- (grammar) Therelationship between multipleterms that have a commonreferent.
- 1988, Andrew Radford,Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page119:
- If we use subscript letters to indicatecoreference (so that two NPs
with the same subscript refer to the same entity, whereas two NPs with differ-
ent subscripts refer to different entities), then we can say that (19) is ambigu-
ous as between the two interpretations represented in (20) below:
(20) (i) The meni will shoot the arrowsj at each otherj
(ii) The meni will shoot the arrowsj at each otheri
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editgrammar: the relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
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