Implicit Arguments, Paychecks and Variable-Free Semantics  

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Pedersen, Walter A.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 20 - 22, 2011, page 155-175.
Topik: implicit arguments; paycheck pronouns; E-type anaphora; variable-free semantics
Fulltext: 155-175.pdf (362.18KB)

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The present paper focuses on a particular class of implicit arguments – what have been termed anaphoric implicit arguments (AIAs) – and presents an account of AIAs in the variable-free (VF) framework introduced in Jacobson 1999, 2000. In particular, it is demonstrated how AIAs allow „paycheck? (E-type) readings, an observation that goes back to Dowty 1981; it is shown that these readings follow naturally in the VF framework. The VF account is then compared and contrasted with some alternatives, including Condoravdi & Gawron?s (1996) proposal that AIAs pattern with definite descriptions.

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