Singular Donkey Pronouns Are Semantically Singular.

Autor:	Kanazawa, Makoto
Předmět:	PRONOUNS (Grammar) COMPARATIVE linguistics SEMANTICS CONTRASTIVE linguistics NUMBER (Grammar) LANGUAGE & languages
Zdroj:	Linguistics & Philosophy; Jun2001, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p383-403, 21p
Abstrakt:	The article reports that the semantics of donkey pronouns has found a surprising number of adherents and even crept into a textbook. According to this idea, syntactically singular donkey pronouns like it in are semantically numberless. The Number Neutrality Thesis has often been put forward as a refinement of the crude E-type analysis of donkey pronouns. A rationale behind the Number Neutrality Thesis is that the singular form of the donkey pronoun in donkey sentences is simply triggered by syntactic agreement.
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