coreferenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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coreference (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 coreferences)

1. (grammar) The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 119:

     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