Dependent plural pronouns with Skolemized choice functions
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Dependent plural pronouns with Skolemized choice functions
The present paper discusses two interesting phenomena concerning phifeatures on plural pronouns: (i) plural pronouns that denote atomic individuals (‘dependent plural pronouns’), and (ii) plural pronouns with more than one binder (‘partial binding’). A novel account of these two phenomena is proposed, according towhich all occurrences of phi-features are both semantically and morphologically re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Language Semantics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0925-854X,1572-865X
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-014-9107-3