A solution to the donkey sentence problem

Analysis 75 (4):554-557 (2015)
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The problem concerns quantifiers that seem to hover between universal and existential readings. I argue that they are neither, but a different quantifier that has features of each. NOTE the published paper has a mistake. I have corrected this in the version on this site. A correction note will appear in Analysis.

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Adam Morton
PhD: Princeton University; Last affiliation: University of British Columbia

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