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COREFERENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coreference mean?
• COREFERENCE (noun)
The noun COREFERENCE has 1 sense:
1. the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
Familiarity information: COREFERENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("coreference" is a kind of...):
grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coreference"):
reflexiveness; reflexivity (the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent)
Derivation:
coreferent (related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction)
coreferential (relating to coreference)
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