The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
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QV with <strong>Bare</strong> <strong><strong>Plural</strong>s</strong><br />
• <strong>Bare</strong> plurals in English denote kinds (Carlson (1977),<br />
Krifka et al. (1995), Chierchia (1998), Dayal (2003)).<br />
• Kinds are nothing but sum individuals <strong>of</strong> a special sort<br />
(Chierchia (1998), Dayal (2003)):<br />
• A covert version <strong>of</strong> the σ-operator (Link (1983)) is<br />
applied to a set that contains (atomic as well as<br />
plural) individuals that fulfil the respective predicate<br />
not only in the actual world, but also in other<br />
possible worlds.<br />
• If bare plurals are combined with non-kind-level<br />
predicates, existential quantification over instances <strong>of</strong><br />
the respective kind (realizations, cf. Krifka et al.<br />
(1995)) is triggered.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> instances picked out by the existential quantifier<br />
vary with the eventualities quantified over by the Q-<br />
adverb (as in the sentences with singular indefinites).<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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