coreferential
coreferential adjective: exhibiting coreference; referring to the same thing.
Adjective
coreferential (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)...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 6
- 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):
Origin of coreferential
From co- + referential.
Words formed from coreferential
Questions about coreferential
- What does coreferential mean?
- Coreferential means exhibiting coreference; referring to the same thing.
- What part of speech is coreferential?
- Coreferential is an adjective.
Words near coreferential in the dictionary
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