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Pluralities

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Roger Schwarzschild

    1. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 61)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Two Ways to Interpret Plural Noun Phrases

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 1-16

  3. Precursors

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 17-31

  4. Preview of the Arguments: Data and Methodology

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 33-42

  5. General Arguments from VP Denotations

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 43-56

  6. Distributivity

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 57-101

  7. Reciprocity

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 103-136

  8. Notes on Floated Quantifiers

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 137-150

  9. Sorting the Domain

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 151-158

  10. Collective Nouns

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 159-192

  11. Conclusion

    • Roger Schwarzschild
    Pages 193-198

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-212
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About this book

Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues, contrary to many of those theories, that plural discourse involves entities corresponding to sets of individuals but nothing corresponding to higher order sets. In the course of the book, the reader will become acquainted with the linguistics data that lies at the heart of this debate including extensive discussion of reciprocals and of collectives (such as the committee). In addition, a unique account of distributivity is proposed in which collective/distributive ambiguities are analyzed in pragmatic terms. The account capitalizes on the idea that the universe may be partitioned differently at different points in a discourse.
Pluralities should be accessible to those with an introductory level background in model-theoretic semantics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

    Roger Schwarzschild

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pluralities

  • Authors: Roger Schwarzschild

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2704-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4007-2Published: 30 April 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4694-9Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2704-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 212

  • Topics: Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Philosophy of Language

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