Complement Anaphora and Dynamic Binding

Both these examples are from (Maxey, Sanford & Barton 1 990) . The contrast with (1 b) shows that a pronoun following a sequence few AB can pick out either those A's which are B (the ' reference set ' or refset) or those A's which are not B (the complement set or compset) . Moxey & Sanford observe that this tends to apply to quantifiers which are monotone decreasing in their right argument I ( M 1 ) such as few, very few and not many (Moxey & Sanford, 1 996 :2 1 4) . Other quantifiers denoting similarly small proportions a few. only a few were found to support anaphora to the refset only (except that ollly a Jew produced some compset continuations in the presence of because) . Examples (2) and (3) are attested cases which appear to involve reference to a complement set (though many readers , myself included, find (3 ) rather difficult to process):