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Plurality, Conjunction and Events

Plurality, Conjunction and Events

Lasersohn, P.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Book 55

PhilosophyLinguisticsLogic

ISBN10: 9048144949
ISBN13: 9789048144945
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 16 2010
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the alternation between collective' and distributive' readings of sentences containing plural or conjoined noun phrases, including analyses from both the modern and the premodern literature. It is argued that plural and conjoined noun phrases are unambiguously group-denoting, and that the collective/distributive distinction therefore must be located in the predicates with which these noun phrases combine. More specifically, predicates must have a hidden argument place for events; the collective/distributive distinction may then be represented in the part/whole structure of these events. This allows a natural treatment of collectivizing' adverbial expressions, and of pluractional' affixes; it also allows a unified semantics for conjunction, in which conjoined sentences and predicates denote groups of events, much like conjoined noun phrases denote groups of individuals.

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