The analyses of Pollard and Sag (1992, 1994) and Reinhart and Reuland (1993) answer why certain reflexive pronouns – so-called picture-NP-reflexives – behave anomalously in allowing co-reference with nonbinding antecedents. These reflexives are exempt from Binding Theory’s Principle A because Principle A only requires binding if a potential antecedent is available in a given local domain. The r...

Note: for current purposes, this document lacks a proper introduction, in that it assumes readers know about MRS and RMRS. The MRS and RMRS languages are successful in allowing grammar writers to construct underspecified compositional semantics for a variety of languages. They can be used with feature structure formalisms, but also in a separate semantic module with other styles of syntax. RMRS...

Sentences with multiple occurrences of plural definites give rise to certain effects suggesting that distributivity should be modeled by polyadic operations. Yet, in this paper it is argued that the simpler treatment of distributivity using unary universal quantification should be retained. Seemingly polyadic effects are claimed to be restricted to definite NPs. This fact is accounted for by th...