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Appendix:
Plural Definites: Unacceptability of (8)
(8) *The biologists that lectured on kangaroos at the conference
last summer are usually open-minded.
Most e. [e ∈ Atom (σ{e’: arg*(e’, σ{X: people*(X) ∧
∃e’’ [ agent(e’’, X) ∧ lecture*(e’’) ∧
past(e’’)]})}) ∧ e @ τ(e’’)]
[e ∈ Atom (σ{e’: open_minded(e’) ∧ pres(e’)})]
• Restrictor: eventualities take place before speech time.
• Nucleus: eventualities include speech time.
• Necessarily yields an empty intersection.
• The sentence is out.
Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005