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Bare Plurals: Acceptability of (11)
• Q-adverb directly quantifies over eventualities each of which
contains an individual that realizes the kind denoted by the
bare plural at that eventuality.
• The denotation of the bare plural is not accessible in the
restriction.
• The plural eventuality introduced by the relative clause does
not influence the choice of the eventualities quantified over.
(11) Biologists that lectured on kangaroos in the eighties are
usually open-minded.
Most e [∃x. real(x, biologists_tlokite, e) ∧
arg(e, x) ∧ e @ t world
)]
[open_m(e) ∧ pres(e)]
(where real means realizes).
Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005