Refer vs Coreferential - What's the difference?
refer | coreferential |
To direct the attention of.
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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(of multiple terms) That refers to, or reference the same thing
(grammar) Of or pertaining to coreference
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As a verb refer
is to direct the attention of.As an adjective coreferential is
(of multiple terms) that refers to, or reference the same thing.refer
English
Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Synonyms
* delegate * directDerived terms
* refer to * refer someone toAnagrams
* English palindromes ----coreferential
English
Adjective
(-)- [...] To take an example from Chomsky (Knowledge'' (1986), p. 8), any native speaker of English knows that ''them'' can be interpreted as being coreferential to (i.e. referring to the same set of individuals as) ''the men'' in (5) (a) below, but not in (5) (b):
(5) (a)_____I wonder who ''the men'' expected to see ''them''
___(b)____''The men'' expected to see ''them