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Absorption

SYNTAX: when some element assumes a (syntactic) feature that is not usually assigned to such an element, it is said that this element absorbs that feature. EXAMPLE: Case is usually assigned to an NP, but Case can be absorbed instead by passive morphology or by a clitic pronoun (not an NP).
At LF: rule that derives a kind of conjunction of referential indices:

(i) ... [NP_i [NP_j ... -> ... [NP_i NP_j]_i,j ...

This rule accounts for cases of crossed binding at LF (see Bach-Peters paradox), and has been proposed as an account of the interpretation of multiple questions.

LIT.

Chomsky, N. (1981)
Higginbotham, J. and R. May (1981)
May, Robert (1985)