Pronouns and Bound Variables

James Higginbotham

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Abstract Suppose that S is a surface structure, A is an occurrence of a quantificational NP in S, and B is an occurrence of a pronoun in S. Under what circumstances can the pronoun be interpreted as a variable, bound to the quantificational NP? Our analysis has for its target sentences such as (1): In (1) and in the other examples given in this article, the bound interpretation of the pronoun is optional. We exclude, for reasons given below, the case in which B is reflexive or reciprocal.

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