coreference

Definitions of coreference
  1. noun
    the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
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    types:
    reflexiveness, reflexivity
    the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
    type of:
    grammatical relation
    a linguistic relation established by grammar
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