Structured Plurality Reconsidered
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffaa012" target="_blank" >10.1093/jos/ffaa012</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Structured Plurality Reconsidered
Original language description
In this article, I address the question of the semantic analysis of structured plurals, that is, expressions like these children and those children, which seem to refer to pluralities of individuals divided into groups. In the first half of the article, I describe a variety of structured plural expressions and predicates they can combine with and I point out the difficulties faced by two extant approaches to the semantics of plurals: inflationary and cover-based semantics. In the second half of the article, I propose an alternative account which combines elements from both of them. The main novelty of my proposal is that, by capitalising on the background operation of certain pragmatic principles, it correctly formalises the fact that some interpretations of ambiguous sentences involving structured plurality are more accessible than others.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-00113S" target="_blank" >GA18-00113S: Reasoning with graded properties</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Semantics
ISSN
0167-5133
e-ISSN
1477-4593
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
49
Pages from-to
145-193
UT code for WoS article
000648970200004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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