The Event-Dependent Individuals and the Ambiguity of Donkey Sentences
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This paper addresses multiple proportional readings in donkey sentences and deals with a question of why the disambiguation of proportional readings is affected by the topic structure of a sentence. The correlation between proportional readings and topic structure has been observed by Heim (1990) and Chierchia (1992) but has not been given a satisfactory explanation yet. Based on my previous study that indefinite NPs are ambiguous between quantificational and cardinal readings, and proper readings are determined by the topic structure, I will show how appropriate readings of donkey sentences are derived from the semantics of indefinite NPs and the syntactic representation of topic structure.
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