[[Coreference is reference to a referent that recurs in different occasions in a stretch of discourse.]]
coreference (INF ) = the act of referring to a referent that recurs in different occasions in a stretch of discourse. The stretch of discourse may constitute a single construction, such as a complex sentence construction. This is the primary context in which coref- erence is discussed in this book. Example: in Jaredi praised hisi father, but hisi father ignored himi, the referent Jared recurs four times in the sentence, and so represents an example of coreference. In linguistic analysis, coreference is often notated by sub- script indexes such as i in the example. (Section 16.1)