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This paper is concerned with constraints on the interpretation of pronominal anaphora, in particular Condition B effects. It aims to contribute to a particular approach, initiated by Reinhart (Anaphora and semantic interpretation, 1983) and further developed elsewhere. It proposes a modification of Reinhart’s Interface Rule, and argues that the resulting theory compares favorably with others, while being compatible with independently motivated general hypotheses about the interaction between different interpretive mechanisms.
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This paper was initially inspired by several long conversations with Tanya Reinhart in the fall of 2006, shortly before she suddenly and very sadly passed away. It is dedicated to her memory. I am also very grateful to the journal’s reviewers and to Jeroen Groenendijk, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Danny Fox, Irene Heim, Kai von Fintel, Stuart Shieber, Anna Szabolcsi, Bart Geurts, Eric Reuland, Anna Chernilovskaya, Maria Aloni, Salvador Mascarenhas, Paul Dekker, and Edgar Andrade for detailed comments on earlier drafts of the paper, and to audiences of workshops and colloquia in Szklarska Poreba, Paris, Leiden, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, and at Harvard and MIT for useful feedback.
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Roelofsen, F. Condition B effects in two simple steps. Nat Lang Semantics 18, 115–140 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-009-9049-3
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