Pairs of things and the meaning of the plural

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pairs of things and the meaning of the plural
Original language description
In this chapter, I discuss issues concerning the semantic interpretation of the plural. I review two alternative approaches to the problem, namely the inclusive and exclusive interpretation of the plural, and recall arguments against the inclusive approach. Furthermore, I propose that the unified semantics of `pair' developed here supports the exclusive account. The analysis accounts for the supposedly heterogeneous behavior of `pair' in phrases in which it combines with regular plural nouns and, on the other hand, with pluralia tantum. The puzzle concerns different cardinalities of denoted objects. I posit that the denotation of regular count nouns includes only sums of individuals, whereas pluralia tantum denote complete semi-lattices. In each case, `pair' selects a minimal element of the denotation of a noun, i.e., either a sum consisting of two individuals or an atom, and turns it into a group that can be further counted.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-16111S" target="_blank" >GA17-16111S: Formal Approaches to Number in Slavic Languages</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Topics in Syntax and Semantics : Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN
9788380888418
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
111-128
Number of pages of the book
156
Publisher name
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Place of publication
Łódź
UT code for WoS chapter
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