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coindex

coindex verb: to index together; to mark (words in a phrase) as referring to the same thing.

Verb

coindex (third-person singular simple present coindexes, present participle coindexing, simple past and past participle coindexed)

  1. (transitive) To index together; to mark (words in a phrase) as referring to the same thing.
    • In other words, if a coindexed pronoun is outside of the c-command domain of a QNP, coindexing between the two will be semantically vacuous.2005, Daniel Büring, Binding theory, page 91

Forms of coindex

third-person singular presentcoindexes
present participlecoindexing
past participlecoindexed
pastcoindexed

Origin of coindex

From co- + index.

Questions about coindex

What does coindex mean?
Coindex means to index together; to mark (words in a phrase) as referring to the same thing.
What part of speech is coindex?
Coindex is a verb.
What is the past tense of coindex?
The past tense of coindex is coindexed.

Words near coindex in the dictionary

  1. coincubated
  2. coincubates
  3. coincubating
  4. coincubation
  5. coincubations
  6. coindex
  7. coindexed
  8. coindexes
  9. coindexing
  10. coindicant
  11. coindication

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