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Quantificational Binding Does Not Require C-Command
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 43, Number 4, Fall 2012
- pp. 614-633
- Article
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Some version of the following claim is almost universally assumed: a quantifier must c-command any pronoun that it binds. Yet as I show, the evidence motivating this claim is not particularly strong. In addition, I gather here a wide variety of systematic counterexamples, some well-known, others new. I conclude that c-command is not relevant for quantificational binding in English (nor is any refinement or extension of c-command).