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Refer vs Coreferential - What's the difference?

refer | coreferential |

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)
  • To direct the attention of.
  • The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
  • He referred the matter to the principal.
    to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
  • 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.
  • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  • (rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
  • # (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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  • Synonyms

    * delegate * direct

    Derived terms

    * refer to * refer someone to

    Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    coreferential

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of multiple terms) That refers to, or reference the same thing
  • (grammar) Of or pertaining to coreference
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  • [...] 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