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Donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is bound semantically) but whose syntactical role in the sentence poses challenges to grammarians. Such sentences defy straightforward attempts to generate their formal language equivalents. The difficulty is with understanding how English speakers parse such sentences. The following sentences are examples of donkey sentences.

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  • Eselssatz (de)
  • Donkey sentence (en)
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  • In der Sprachwissenschaft ist Eselssatz (englisch: donkey sentence) der Fachbegriff für eine Klasse von Sätzen, in denen Pronomen sich abweichend von klassischen Bindungstheorien verhalten. Der Name geht auf Beispiele in der mittelalterlichen Logik zurück, in denen Esel eine Rolle spielen. Eselssätze wurden von Peter Geach in die moderne philosophische und sprachwissenschaftliche Diskussion eingebracht. Sie werden vor allem in der formalen Semantik untersucht. (de)
  • Donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is bound semantically) but whose syntactical role in the sentence poses challenges to grammarians. Such sentences defy straightforward attempts to generate their formal language equivalents. The difficulty is with understanding how English speakers parse such sentences. The following sentences are examples of donkey sentences. (en)
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