Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites

Questions with plural definites (QPDs) can receive responses that take the form of a pair-list. Following Dayal (1992, 1996) and Krifka (1992), these are generally treated not as genuine pair-list answers, but pragmatically-motivated elaborations on underlyingly cumulative answers. I present new evidence against this view: answers be available even in absence corresponding felicitous answer. argue such must represented semantics, QPDs permit both “cumulation-and-elaboration” strategy parse. EARLY ACCESS