Cumulative readings beyond nominals
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4065Keywords:
semantics, morphosyntax, questions, plurality, distributivity, cumulativity, numberAbstract
In this paper, our aim is to investigate the limits of semantic plurality; we ask whether semantic plurality constrained by morphosyntactic plurality, and if so, how. In order to shed light on these questions, we focus on two empirical domains of in- quiry in which we find superficial mismatches between semantic and morphosyntactic plurality: (i) group nouns and agreement in British vs. English, and (ii) semantically plural embedded interrogatives. Based on our findings, we argue for a new, negative licensing condition on the insertion of the * and ** operators.
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2017-06-14
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Elliott, Patrick D., and Andreea Cristina Nicolae. 2017. “Cumulative Readings Beyond Nominals”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2 (June): 49:1–11. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4065.