Coreference

Origin

- + co + reference

Noun

1. (grammar) The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
• 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, 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 men_i will shoot the arrows_j at each other_j
         (ii)      The men_i will shoot the arrows_j at each other_i

Related terms

• corefer
• coreferential