Constraints on Some Other Variables in Syntax

Natural Language Semantics 8 (3):173-229 (2000)
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In this paper I assume that syntactic structures contain items that function as variables over possible worlds (or things like possible worlds). I show that in certain syntactic positions we can use some variables but not other. I accordingly motivate a "binding theory" for the items that occupy these positions, and I discuss some consequences of this binding theory

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