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Selective vs. Unselective Quantification over the Atomic Parts of Plural Entities: A Comparison of for the most part and usually

by Cornelia Endriss, Stefan Hinterwimmer
"... Consider the examples in (1) – (6): (1) a. Yesterday at Paul’s party, Mary talked to a lot of people. They were usually nice. ..."
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Consider the examples in (1) – (6): (1) a. Yesterday at Paul’s party, Mary talked to a lot of people. They were usually nice.

A Treatment of Plurals and Plural Quantifications based on a Theory of Collections

by Enrico Franconi - Minds and Machines , 1993
"... . Collective entities and collective relations play an important role in natural language. In order to capture the full meaning of sentences like "The Beatles sing `Yesterday' ", a knowledge representation language should be able to express and reason about plural entities -- like &qu ..."
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. Collective entities and collective relations play an important role in natural language. In order to capture the full meaning of sentences like "The Beatles sing `Yesterday' ", a knowledge representation language should be able to express and reason about plural entities -- like

To be a Value of a Plural Variable, You Don’t Have to be Plural (You Just Have to Be)

by Paul M. Pietroski
"... Given a language with truth-evaluable sentences that contain variables, we say that such sentences are true or false relative to assignments of values to variables. Given a first-order language, with no plural variables, we say that each assignment A assigns exactly one value to each variable; where ..."
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, and it satisfies G x A(x) A(x) Given plural variables, corresponding to ‘them ’ (as opposed to ‘it’), we can (a) retain the idea that each assignment assigns exactly one value to each variable, by saying that each value of a plural variable is a plural entity with elements that can be values of singular variables

Bangla Plural Classifiers

by Veneeta Dayal
"... This paper investigates the expression of plurality in Bangla. Like other languages that use classifiers in cardinal constructions, Bangla does not mark the singular-plural distinction on the noun. However, like other classifier languages, Bangla has expressions that convey reference to pluralities: ..."
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:-gulo and –ra. The first can combine with nouns that denote animate as well as inanimate entities, while the other only combines with animate nouns. The first entails reference to more than one entity while the other seems to merely implicate plural reference. The first is incompatible with kind reference

Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis

by Yoad Winter - JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS , 2001
"... The Strongest Meaning Hypothesis of Dalrymple et al (1994,1998), which was originally proposed as a principle for the interpretation of reciprocals, is extended in this paper into a general principle of plural predication. This principle applies to complex predicates that are composed of lexical ..."
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predicates that hold of atomic entities, and determines the pluralities in the extension of the predicate. The meaning

1 Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality. A Reassessment of the Linguistic Facts

by Friederike Moltmann , 2012
"... There are two fundamentally different views of the semantics of definite plural NPs. I will call them ‘Reference to a Plurality ’ and ‘Plural Reference’. Reference to a Plurality is the view that definite plurals stand for a particular sort of entity, a plurality, more precisely a plurality ‘as one’ ..."
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There are two fundamentally different views of the semantics of definite plural NPs. I will call them ‘Reference to a Plurality ’ and ‘Plural Reference’. Reference to a Plurality is the view that definite plurals stand for a particular sort of entity, a plurality, more precisely a plurality ‘as one

Associative Plurals and Inclusories in Malay/Indonesian

by David Gil
"... The associative plural construction is one in which a denoting expression A occurs together with a morpheme m, resulting in the interpretation 'A and one or more entities associated with A; see, for example, Daniel (2000) and Moravcsik (2003). An example of an associative plural construction in ..."
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The associative plural construction is one in which a denoting expression A occurs together with a morpheme m, resulting in the interpretation 'A and one or more entities associated with A; see, for example, Daniel (2000) and Moravcsik (2003). An example of an associative plural construction

Generating coherent references to multiple entities

by Albert Gatt , 2007
"... work contained in this document has been submitted in support of an application for a degree or qualification of this or any other university or other institution of learning. All verbatim extracts have been distinguished by quotation marks, and all sources of information have been specifically ackn ..."
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problem, which is to generate natural descriptions, much as a person would generate them in a comparable situation. This problem becomes much more pronounced in the case of plural reference, where even psycholinguistic research is lacking. This thesis focuses on the generation of plurals, with particular

Compositional Pluralism and Composition as Identity 1

by Kris Mcdaniel
"... The point of this paper is to assess to what extent compositional pluralism and composition as identity can from a coherent package of views. Since I think there are good arguments for compositional pluralism and I feel the intuition that gives some support to composition as identity, I am motivated ..."
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The point of this paper is to assess to what extent compositional pluralism and composition as identity can from a coherent package of views. Since I think there are good arguments for compositional pluralism and I feel the intuition that gives some support to composition as identity, I am

Land Administration Reform in a Plural Environment –

by Promoting L, Good Governance
"... The development of formal structures, systems and framework for socioeconomic development in many West African countries occurs within plural setups. The pluralism ranges from the very nature of communities and entities within which the systems are to operate, to legal frameworks, customs and tradit ..."
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The development of formal structures, systems and framework for socioeconomic development in many West African countries occurs within plural setups. The pluralism ranges from the very nature of communities and entities within which the systems are to operate, to legal frameworks, customs
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