coreference

plural coreferences

1. countableuncountablegrammarThe relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent.

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   If we use subscript letters to indicate coreference (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

   1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 119