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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<strong>The</strong> Use <strong>of</strong> <strong>Bare</strong> <strong><strong>Plural</strong>s</strong>: English<br />
• <strong>The</strong> possibility to use a bare plural seems to<br />
depend not only on intensionality (as in Dayal<br />
(2003)), but also on the temporal specificity<br />
<strong>of</strong> the respective predicate<br />
• If the interval is “too specific”, the definite<br />
article has to be chosen:<br />
(13) (*<strong>The</strong>) biologists that lecture on kangaroos are<br />
usually open-minded.<br />
(14) *(<strong>The</strong>) biologists that lectured on kangaroos at<br />
the conference last summer were usually openminded.<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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