ABSTRACT
In generative grammar, coreferentiality is present when different noun phrases have the same extralinguistic reference. Coreferentiality is formalized by numbers or small Roman letters: Philip1 discovered his friend2 and greeted him2 heartily. He1 was glad to have this jovial fellow2 finally nearby. Presumably, the coreferential identity of different noun phrases must be indexed exactly in order to describe transformational processes like pronominalization ( personal pronoun) and reflexivization ( reflexive pronoun). The limitations of coreferentiality are discussed in Wiese (1983).
