Inde?nite donkeys on islands  

Oleh:

Onea, Edgar

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3 - 5, 2013, page 493–513.
Topik: Inde?nite scope; DRT; scope islands; quanti?cation; donkey anaphora
Fulltext: 3694-7436-1-PB.pdf (164.29KB)

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In this paper I present a theory of inde?nites which captures two of their natural properties: inde?nites license donkey anaphora (Geach 1962) and they exhibit ‘speci?c’ readings in which they appear to scope out of scope islands. In various ?avours of dynamic semantics(Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Dekker 2004). these properties can be captured to the detriment of compositionally. Other theories have employed more involved technical machinery like choice functions (Kratzer 1998, von Heusinger 2002), Hambia-semantics (Kratzer & Shimoyama 2002) or independence friendly logics (Brasoveanu & Farkas 2011)to derive exceptional scope readings, but ignored donkey anaphora. Theories of E-type anaphora, on the other hand, generally do not consider exceptional scope readings (Heim 1990, Elbourne 2001). My own analysis combines insights from dynamic semantics with referential indexing in LF-semantics, resulting in a fully compositional, static system.

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