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>Plural</strong> <strong>Definites</strong>: Co-variation with Eventualities<br />
• Co-variation can come about because the set<br />
denoted by the respective NP-complement <strong>of</strong> the<br />
definite article varies itself.<br />
(21) <strong>The</strong> people in Peter’s class are usually French.<br />
(22) *<strong>The</strong> people in Peter’s current class are usually<br />
French.<br />
• In (21), the NP people in Peter’s class varies<br />
with the school years.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> NP class contains a silent eventuality<br />
variable that is bound by the Q-adverb.<br />
• An eventuality predicate λe.school-year(e) is<br />
inferred on the basis <strong>of</strong> clause internal<br />
information. (see appendix for details)<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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