Sentence-internal Different as Quantifier-internal Anaphora
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– describe the patterns of interpretation and outline the emerging typology involved in relating: (i) various kinds of distributive quantifiers and (ii) various kinds of distributivity-dependent items – formally capture these patterns and typology in a logical system that involves: (i) fine-grained, structured contexts of evaluation that distributivity-dependent items are sensitive to (ii) a family of distributivity operators over such contexts that are the basic components of different kinds of quantifiers
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