COREFERENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)