Cumulative readings beyond nominals

Authors

  • Patrick D. Elliott University College London
  • Andreea Cristina Nicolae Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4065

Keywords:

semantics, morphosyntax, questions, plurality, distributivity, cumulativity, number

Abstract

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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Published

2017-06-14

How to Cite

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.