Meanings
- not comparablegrammarExhibiting coreference; referring to the same thing.
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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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelating to coreference
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Origin
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coreferential. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coreferential
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