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24A sloppy identity puzzleNatural Language Semantics 7 (2): 217-241. 1999.Sloppy identity under ellipsis is generally attributed to the pronoun in ellipsis being a bound variable. However, sloppy identity can be licensed in structural configurations in which variable binding is ordinarily blocked. This paper provides a solution for this mismatch by reanalyzing the pronouns with the unexpected sloppy readings as E-type pronouns. Under the proposed analysis, the distribution of such pronouns is correctly predicted. It will also be shown that the analysis is successfully…Read more
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University of DelawareRegular Faculty
Newark, Delaware, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |