Pluralities

By: Roger Schwarzschild

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Hardcover | 30 April 1996

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Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues, contrary to many of those theories, that plural discourse involves entities corresponding to sets of individuals but nothing corresponding to higher order sets. In the course of the book, the reader will become acquainted with the linguistics data that lies at the heart of this debate including extensive discussion of reciprocals and of collectives (such as the committee). In addition, a unique account of distributivity is proposed in which collective/distributive ambiguities are analyzed in pragmatic terms. The account capitalizes on the idea that the universe may be partitioned differently at different points in a discourse.
Pluralities should be accessible to those with an introductory level background in model-theoretic semantics.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Two Ways to Interpret Plural Noun Phrases	p. 1
Precursors	p. 17
Preview of the Arguments: Data and Methodology	p. 33
General Arguments from VP Denotations	p. 43
Distributivity	p. 57
Reciprocity	p. 103
Notes on Floated Quantifiers	p. 137
Sorting the Domain	p. 151
Collective Nouns	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 193
Appendix	p. 199
References	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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