
doi: 10.3765/sp.1.1
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
E-type pronoun, situation semantics, binding, variable-free, Language and Literature, D-type pronoun, direct compositionality, P, quantification, Semantics, donkey anaphora, continuations, weak crossover, conditionals, donkey pronoun, type-shifting, P325-325.5, scope, dynamic semantics, c-command
E-type pronoun, situation semantics, binding, variable-free, Language and Literature, D-type pronoun, direct compositionality, P, quantification, Semantics, donkey anaphora, continuations, weak crossover, conditionals, donkey pronoun, type-shifting, P325-325.5, scope, dynamic semantics, c-command
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