Determiners do not need to manage donkey anaphora

Abstract

If a quantificational determiner denotes a relation between the restrictor and the scope, then in order to handle donkey anaphora, the transmission of anaphoric information from the restrictor to the scope must be baked into the lexical semantics of the determiner. By analyzing quantification as unary, rather than relational, I show that donkey anaphora can be accounted for without defining determiners which explicitly manage the flow of anaphoric information.