ABSTRACT
From the point of view of logic, ‘quantifiers’ (or quantified NPs containing them) have the special property of non-unique reference. In ‘Everyone / Every friend of yours thinks Mary called him’, the referential value of ‘him’ may vary depending on the referential values that the quantifier ‘everyone’ (or the quantified NP ‘every friend of yours’) takes. If the latter ranges over a set of three people (say, Bill, John and Harry), there will be three values both for the quantifier (or quantified NP) and the pronoun (‘Bill thinks Mary called Bill’; ‘John thinks Mary called John’; ‘Harry thinks Mary called Harry’). In this interpretation, the referential value of ‘him’ is thus ‘bound’ to the referential value of the quantifier (‘him’, of course, may also have an interpretation completely independent from the quantifier).
