Plural Pronouns with Quantified Antecedents

Abstract

It is well known that plural pronouns can have quantified antecedents which do not c-command them. While both Heim’s E-type approach and DRT’s Abstraction approach can handle some cases of this, there are certain cases neither approach can handle, when the quantified antecedent is embedded with the scope of another quantifier. We show how both approaches can be modified to solve the problem.