coindex

English

Etymology

co- +‎ index

Verb

coindex (third-person singular simple present coindexes, present participle coindexing, simple past and past participle coindexed)

1. (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.

Related terms

• coindexable
• coindexation