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Presuppositions and Pronouns - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

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126 <strong>Presuppositions</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pronouns</strong><br />

b. It still is a mystery how she managed to smuggle them ; i<br />

into<br />

[her apartment]j without being noticed, <strong>and</strong> yet it is now<br />

established beyond any reasonable doubt that Betty has been<br />

keeping [twelve German shepherds]- L there j<br />

<strong>for</strong> more than a<br />

decade.<br />

In (8a), the pronoun in the first conjunct refers <strong>for</strong>ward to the indefinite NP<br />

in the second, while at the same time then in the second conjunct refers<br />

backwards to the temporal adverbial in the first; <strong>and</strong> the same holds, mutatis<br />

mut<strong>and</strong>is, <strong>for</strong> the pronouns them <strong>and</strong> there in (8b).<br />

It might be suggested that such examples can be h<strong>and</strong>led by yet another<br />

version of dynamic conjunction, along the following lines:<br />

(9) fl[cp a[

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