When the donkey lost its fleas: Persistence, minimal situations, and embedded quantifiers

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-296

  Zweig, Eytan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual restriction; Donkey anaphora; Persistence; Quantification; Situation semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249069561     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-006-9003-6     Document Type: Review

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