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coreferential en · ADJ

Etymology

From co- + referential.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Exhibiting coreference; referring to the same thing.
    • To take an example from Chomsky (Knowledge (1986), p. 8), any native speaker of English knows that them can be interpreted as being coreferential to (i.e. referring to the same set of individuals as) the men in (5) (a) below, but not in (5) (b): (5) (a) I wonder who the men expected to see them (b) The men expected to see them 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Deriveds

noncoreferential