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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Acceptability differences explained<br />
• (5) is out due to the IRS:<br />
(5) ?? A car that was bought in the 80s is usually blue.<br />
Most e. [∃x [arg(e, x) ∧ car (x) ∧ ∃e’ [buy(e’) ∧<br />
theme(e’, x) ∧ past(e’) ∧ in_80s(e’) ∧ e’ @ 80s] ∧<br />
C’’(x) ∧ e @ τ(e’)] [blue (e) ∧ pres(e)]<br />
• Restrictor: eventualities take place before speech time.<br />
• Nucleus: eventualities include speech time.<br />
• Necessarily yields an empty intersection.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> sentence is out.<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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