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>Plural</strong> <strong>Definites</strong>: Unacceptability <strong>of</strong> (9)<br />
(9) *<strong>The</strong> biologists that listened to Peter’s talk on kangaroo tails<br />
at the conference last summer were usually open-minded.<br />
Most e [e ∈ Atom(σ{e’: arg*(e’, the_biologists e’’ )})<br />
∧ e @ τ(e’’)]<br />
[e ∈ Atom(σ{e’: open_m(e’) ∧ pres(e’)})]<br />
(see appendix for details)<br />
• Explanation for oddity <strong>of</strong> (9) has nothing to do with conflicting<br />
tense information.<br />
• Coincidence Constraint explains the oddity by restricting the<br />
co-occurences <strong>of</strong> the involved eventualities.<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005