摘要：There are two main approaches to ‘donkey’ sentences such as (1). Dynamic theories argue that pronouns have the semantics of variables, but that existential quantifiers can bind outside of their c-command domain. E-type theories argue instead that pronouns have the semantics of definite descriptions, with it the donkey that the farmer owns (e.g. Heim 1990) or just the donkey (Elbourne 2005). Such accounts require adoption of an event or situation semantics, but no revision of the standard notion of scope.
