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Deixis vs Coreference - What's the difference?

deixis | coreference | see also |

As nouns the difference between deixis and coreference

is that deixis is a reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to interpret correctly while coreference is the relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent.

deixis

English

Noun

(deixes)
  • (linguistics) A reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to interpret correctly.
    • The use of pronouns relies on a deixis to correctly interpret them.

    Synonyms

    * indexicality

    Hypernyms

    * exophora

    Antonyms

    * (with regards to type of information needed to understand a reference ): homophora

    Related terms

    * deictic * deictically * deictical

    References

    * http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsDeixis.htm

    Anagrams

    * ----

    coreference

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia coreference) (en noun)
  • (grammar) The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
  • *
    • 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

    See also

    * anaphora * deixis