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Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2008
We propose that the antecedent of a donkey pronoun takes scope over and binds the donkey pronoun, just like any other quantificational antecedent would bind a pronoun.
Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
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Revisiting donkey anaphora in Mandarin Chinese

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2020
Abstract In their article published in this journal, Pan and Jiang (2015) challenge the claims and proposals made in Cheng and Huang (1996) concerning both the distributional patterns and interpretive strategies for donkey anaphora in Mandarin conditional. They claim that all three types
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
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Towards a discourse-semantic account of donkey anaphora †

, 2002
Abstract Donkey anaphora is a form of pronominal or nominal anaphora which cannot be adequately rendered in the language of modern predicate calculus as devised by Russell at the start of this century. The problem of donkey anaphora consists precisely in the inability of modern predicate calculus to account for it, and is thus ...
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Antecedent accessibility and exceptional covariation: Evidence from Norwegian Donkey Pronouns

Glossa, 2019
It is generally assumed that interpreting a co-referential or a syntactically-bound pronoun requires retrieving a representation of its antecedent from memory.
Dave Kush, Ragnhild Eik
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Donkey Anaphora in Non-Monotonic Environments

Journal of Semantics, 2019
Abstract Donkey anaphora in quantified sentences is ambiguous between an existential and a universal reading. The extent to which different readings are accessible depends on the quantifier, but how to model this dependence is debated (Kanazawa, 1994; Champollion et al. 2019).
Denić, M., Sudo, Y.
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Bishop Sentences and Donkey Cataphora: A Response to Barker and Shan

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009
Some issues are raised concerning the treatment of donkey cataphora and bishop sentences in Barker & Shan 2008.
Paul David Elbourne
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Quantifiers and Variables: Insights from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In standard logical systems, quantifiers and variables are essential to express complex relations among objects. Natural language has expressions that have an analogous function: some noun phrases play the role of quantifiers (e.g.
Philippe Schlenker
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Quantification and Negation in Event Semantics

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
Recently, it has been claimed that event semantics does not go well together with quantification, especially if one rejects syntactic, LF-based approaches to quantifier scope.
Lucas Champollion
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Grammatical Number and Donkey Anaphora in English [PDF]

Revue québécoise de linguistique, 2009
The article extends the analysis of English donkey anaphora, developed by Gareth Evans and improved by Stephen Neale, beyond those cases where the antecedents are singular count noun phrases, to those where the antecedents are either plural count noun phrases or mass noun phrases.
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Plural Intensional Presuppositional predicate calculus (PIP)

Glossa
One successful branch of natural language semantics uses first order predicate calculus and set theory, well-studied systems of mathematics in their own right, as meta-languages for natural-language meanings.
Ezra Keshet, Steven Abney
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