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Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora
Natural Language Semantics, 1997This paper argues that a kinds-based analysis of bare plurals is incompatible with an analysis of donkey anaphors as variables. However, kinds are compatible with an E-type analysis.
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Descriptive Pronouns and Donkey Anaphora
The Journal of Philosophy, 1990Nombre de philosophes et linguistes ont soutenu que les relations anaphoriques du type : « si un homme achete un âne, il le vaccine » posaient des problemes insurmontables pour les theories traditionnelles de la quantification et de l'anaphore. L'A. suggere au contraire que ces theories peuvent etre preservees au prix de quelques modifications touchant
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Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese
Abstract Donkey sentences in Mandarin Chinese typically feature a wh-expression as the antecedent noun phrase. It has been argued that these sentences fall into two distinct types, based on the anaphoric forms they allow: Bare conditionals permit only an identical wh-expression as the anaphoric element, while ruguo-/dou-conditionals ...Hang Kuang, Haihua Pan
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Context Dependent Quantifiers and Donkey Anaphora
Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 2004It is generally agreed that some anaphoric pronouns with (what appear to be) quantifier antecedents occur outside the syntactic scope (i.e., the c-command domain) of their antecedents. First, there is “donkey anaphora,” of both the conditional and relative clause varieties:(1)If Sarah owns a donkey, she beats it.(2)Every woman who owns a donkey beats ...
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Domesticating Donkeys: STA on Generality and Anaphora
2004Abstract I provide STA’s general and unified analysis of donkey pronouns, along with a unified treatment of if-sentences that spans the singular/general divide. I develop STA’s solution to the double-bind problem raised in 10.
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Instantial terms, donkey anaphora, and individual concepts
2017This dissertation explores two closely related problems in the philosophy of logic and language. The first problem concerns the meaning of so-called instantial terms, as when one stipulates ?let p be a prime number? in a mathematical proof for the purposes of proving some conclusion about all primes.
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