coindex
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coindex (third-person singular simple present coindexes, present participle coindexing, simple past and past participle coindexed)
- (transitive, linguistics) To index together; to mark (words in a phrase) as referring to the same thing.
- 2005, Daniel Büring, Binding theory, page 91:
- In other words, if a coindexed pronoun is outside of the c-command domain of a QNP, coindexing between the two will be semantically vacuous.