Reconciling Dependent Plurals with "Each Other"

In this paper I discuss the interpretation of dependent plural pronouns (pronouns bound by a distributing definite antecedent), and argue that they should be treated as “donkey” pronouns involving restricted functions. Such pronouns have been central to the study of reciprocals, and I follow in the tradition of studying the interaction of the two. Most analyses of the reciprocal allow it the option of finding its “range” argument through movement or binding to a non-local antecedent. I argue that such “long distance” reciprocals are insufficiently motivated, and cannot handle the full range of constructions involving dependent pronouns. I show that the proposed functional analysis of dependent pronouns makes it possible to account for “long distance” reciprocals without resorting to wide scope, by referring directly to the functional translation of their antecedent.