the act of referring to a referent that recurs in different occasions in a stretch of discourse. The stretch of discourse may constitute a single construction, such as a complex sentence construction. This is the primary context in which coreference is discussed in this book. Example: in Jared_i praised his_i father, but his_i father ignored him_i, the referent Jared recurs four times in the sentence, and so represents an example of coreference. In linguistic analysis, coreference is often notated by subscript indexes such as i in the example. (Section 16.1)