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When the donkey lost its fleas: persistence, minimal situations, and embedded quantifiers

2006; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11050-006-9003-6

1572-865X

Eytan Zweig,

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

This paper revisits the question of whether propositions in situation semantics must be persistent [Kratzer (1989). Linguistics and Philosophy, 12, 607–653]. It shows that ignoring persistence causes empirical problems for theories which use quantification over minimal situations as a solution for donkey anaphora [Elbourne (2005). Situations and individuals. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press]. At the same time, modifying these theories to incorporate persistence makes them incompatible with the use of situations for contextual restriction [Kratzer (2004). Ms., University of Massachusetts].