 the pronoun “it” “goes proxy for” the definite description “the donkey John bought.” Hence the second sentence of such a discourse is equivalent to the sentence “Harry vaccinated the donkey John bought” with the description understood in the standard Russellian fashion. Within a generalized quantifier type framework, where “the” is treated as a determiner that, like other determiners, combines with a set term to form a quantified NP, the evaluation clause for sentences containing a singular description (with wide scope) can be given as follows