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Elbourne's book is a tremendously impressive achievement. He has managed to present and develop an interesting and unusual approach to definite DP structure and interpretation, and to defend it against all competitors... It is not often that a book is both required reading and as enjoyable as this book is; it may well become a classic in its field. -- Barbara Abbott, Journal of Linguistics A sparkling contribution to the linguistic and philosophical literature on anaphora and descriptions. Original, thorough, well presented, and immensely thought provoking--in short, required reading. --Stephen Neale, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University Paul Elbourne's work is the latest, and in several areas likely the last, word on several issues in the interpretation of nominal anaphora. As he stresses, the great variety of phenomena from several languages that can now be discussed at a high level call for a detailed discussion of critical examples. This Elbourne provides for us, now and for the future. --James Higginbotham, Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California Situations and Individuals takes on an ambitious task: to present a unified analysis of proper names and all kinds of pronouns. Subtle linguistic facts are brought to bear on old and new debates in linguistics and philosophy. Elbourne's book combines the best of both disciplines. --Angelika Kratzer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

"""A sparkling contribution to the linguistic and philosophical literature on anaphora and descriptions. Original, thorough, well-presented, and immensely thought-provoking -- in short, required reading.""--Stephen Neale, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University ""Jefffrey C. King argues, in meticulous and scrupulous style, for the unorthodox thesis that complex phrases such as 'that book' are not pure referential devices, but have a unified, quantificational semantics. Complex Demonstratives is an exemplary scholarly production, going to the heart of inquiry linking the formal properties of human language to more general issues of human thought and communication.""--James Higginbotham, Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California "" Situations and Individuals takes on an ambitious task: to present a unified analysis of proper names and all kinds of pronouns. Subtle linguistic facts are brought to bear on old and new debates in linguistics and philosophy. Elbourne""s book combines the best of both disciplines."" Angelika Kratzer , Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst ""*The Syntax of (In)dependence* is an extraordinarily careful and thoroughly argued view of pronominal anaphora, attentive to all of the major lines of research over the past 35 years or so. The author is scrupulous about the data, and equally scrupulous in his discussions and criticisms of these approaches. Work at this level of both detail and theory is valuable and rare, and crucial for further progress in the subject.""--James Higginbotham, Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California ""*Situations and Individuals* takes on an ambitious task: to present a unified analysis of proper names and all kinds of pronouns. Subtle linguistic facts are brought to bear on old and new debates in linguistics and philosophy. Elbourne's book combines the best of both disciplines.""--Angelika Kratzer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst"

A sparkling contribution to the linguistic and philosophical literature on anaphora and descriptions. Original, thorough, well-presented, and immensely thought-provoking -- in short, required reading. --Stephen Neale, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University Jefffrey C. King argues, in meticulous and scrupulous style, for the unorthodox thesis that complex phrases such as 'that book' are not pure referential devices, but have a unified, quantificational semantics. Complex Demonstratives is an exemplary scholarly production, going to the heart of inquiry linking the formal properties of human language to more general issues of human thought and communication. --James Higginbotham, Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California Situations and Individuals takes on an ambitious task: to present a unified analysis of proper names and all kinds of pronouns. Subtle linguistic facts are brought to bear on old and new debates in linguistics and philosophy. Elbourne s book combines the best of both disciplines. Angelika Kratzer , Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst *The Syntax of (In)dependence* is an extraordinarily careful and thoroughly argued view of pronominal anaphora, attentive to all of the major lines of research over the past 35 years or so. The author is scrupulous about the data, and equally scrupulous in his discussions and criticisms of these approaches. Work at this level of both detail and theory is valuable and rare, and crucial for further progress in the subject. --James Higginbotham, Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California *Situations and Individuals* takes on an ambitious task: to present a unified analysis of proper names and all kinds of pronouns. Subtle linguistic facts are brought to bear on old and new debates in linguistics and philosophy. Elbourne's book combines the best of both disciplines. --Angelika Kratzer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Paul Elbourne is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London.

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