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Although sloppy interpretation is usually accounted for by theories of ellipsis, it often arises in non-elliptical contexts. In this paper, a theory of sloppy interpretation is provided which captures this fact. The underlying idea is that sloppy interpretation results from a semantic constraint on parallel structures and the theory is shown to predict sloppy readings for deaccented and paycheck sentences as well as relational-, event-, and one-anaphora. It is further shown to capture the interaction of sloppy/strict ambiguity with quantification and binding. Finally, it is compared with other approaches to sloppy identity, in particular [4,12] and [5].

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Gardent, C. (1997). Sloopy Identity. In: Retoré, C. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052158

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