| Título: | Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding |
| Autores: |
Barker, Chris; NYU Shan, Chung-chieh; Rutgers |
| Fecha: | 2008-06-09 |
| Publicador: | Semantics and pragmatics |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Tema: | donkey anaphora; continuations; E-type pronoun; type-shifting; scope; quantification; binding; dynamic semantics; weak crossover; donkey pronoun; variable-free; direct compositionality; D-type pronoun; conditionals; situation semantics; c-command |
| Descripción: | 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. We flesh out this idea in a grammar that compositionally derives the truth conditions of donkey sentences containing conditionals and relative clauses, including those involving modals and proportional quantifiers. For example, an indefinite in the antecedent of a conditional can bind a donkey pronoun in the consequent by taking scope over the entire conditional. Our grammar manages continuations using three independently motivated type-shifters, Lift, Lower, and Bind. Empirical support comes from donkey weak crossover (*He beats it if a farmer owns a donkey): in our system, a quantificational binder need not c-command a pronoun that it binds, but must be evaluated before it, so that donkey weak crossover is just a special case of weak crossover. We compare our approach to situation-based E-type pronoun analyses, as well as to dynamic accounts such as Dynamic Predicate Logic. A new 'tower' notation makes derivations considerably easier to follow and manipulate than some previous grammars based on continuations. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.1.1 BibTeX info See also the interactive tutorial about the system in this paper |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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