coreferential

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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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"

From co- + referential.

noncoreferential

co-referent

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