On Bishops and Donkeys

Natural Language Semantics 16 (4):359-372 (2008)
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The problem of indistinguishable participants is a well-known problem for D-type theories of donkey pronouns. Recently, Paul Elbourne has offered a D-type theory that purports to dissolve the problem of indistinguishable participants. I argue against Elboune’s solution

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Descriptions.Peter Ludlow - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
On bishop sentences.Paul Elbourne - 2010 - Natural Language Semantics 18 (1):65-78.
Descriptions: An Annotated Bibliography.Berit Brogaard - 2010 - Oxford Annotated Bibliographies Online.
Descriptions.P. Elbourne - 2012 - In Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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E-type pronouns and donkey anaphora.Irene Heim - 1990 - Linguistics and Philosophy 13 (2):137--77.
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