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Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora

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This paper argues that a kinds-based analysis of bare plurals is incompatible with an analysis of donkey anaphors as variables. However, kinds are compatible with an E-type analysis.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, 4088 Foreign Languages Bldg., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

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Lasersohn, P. Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora. Natural Language Semantics 5, 79–86 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008295326010

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