Anaphora vs Coreference - What's the difference?
anaphora | coreference | see also |
(rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
(linguistics) An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context.
(linguistics) An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
English plurals
English plurals
(grammar) The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
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As nouns the difference between anaphora and coreference
is that anaphora is the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis while coreference is the relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent.anaphora
English
Alternative forms
* (plural of anaphora) anaphoras, anaphors * (plural of anaphor) anaphorsNoun
Derived terms
* anaphoricUsage notes
* In linguistics, the terms (anaphor) and (term) are sometimes used interchangeably, although in some theories, a distinction is made between them. See .Hypernyms
* (reference to something previously mentioned) endophoraCoordinate terms
* (reference to something previously mentioned) cataphora, exophora, homophoraSee also
* ("anaphora" on Wikipedia) *coreference
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Noun
(wikipedia coreference) (en noun)- 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 meni will shoot the arrowsj at each otherj
(ii) The meni will shoot the arrowsj at each otheri