Coreference in Non-constituent coordination

[Dick Hudson]

Berthold Crysmann asks:

>Subjects in VP coordination and, apparently  in NCC as well, must be
>interpreted as coreferent. I wonder what the situation is with shared
>indefinite objects in NCC?
## But surely that's not true of subjects in (so-called) VP coordination?
(1)	People come to London in the summer and avoid it in the winter.
(2)	Only one student got a distinction and failed - all the rest just passed.
(3)	One boy kissed Mary and hugged Jane - all the other girls got kisses
and hugs from several boys.

Dick

Richard (= Dick) Hudson

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