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unselective binding: a standalone construct

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Semantics

the analysis of adverbs such as always and usually as quantifiers that bind all free variables in their scope at once, including those of indefinites.

In semantics, unselective binding refers to the analysis of adverbs such as always and usually as quantifiers that bind all free variables in their scope at once, including those of indefinites. This meaning comes from Lewis (1975) in Formal Semantics of Natural Language.[1]

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binding4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs natural3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs scope2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Lewis, D. (1975). Adverbs of quantification. In Formal Semantics of Natural Language (pp. 3-15). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511897696.003

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