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donkey anaphora: a standalone construct

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Semantics

puzzle in which a pronoun is bound by an indefinite that does not c-command it, testing theories of how quantification and anaphora interact.

In semantics, donkey anaphora refers to puzzle in which a pronoun is bound by an indefinite that does not c-command it, testing theories of how quantification and anaphora interact. This meaning comes from Heim (1990) in Linguistics and Philosophy.[1]

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anaphora2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two opposite constructs semantics2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Heim, I. (1990). E-Type pronouns and donkey anaphora. Linguistics and Philosophy, 13(2), 137-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00630732

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