'Could have done otherwise', action sentences and anaphora
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‘Could have done otherwise’, action sentences and anaphora
'Could have done otherwise', action sentences and anaphora HELEN STEWARD What does it mean to say of a certain agent, S, that he or she could have done otherwise? Clearly, it means nothing at all, unless the anaphoric devices within the sentence have been anchored to definite antecedents. In this paper, I shall argue that there may be more ways of effecting this anchoring than is commonly suppo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Analysis
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0003-2638,1467-8284
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8284.2006.00595.x