Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds

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The referential analysis of conditionals has recently been put forth as an alternative the Kratzer-style restrictor (Schein 2001, Schlenker 2004, among others). Under this analysis, conditional antecedents are definite descriptions worlds/situations. This paper explores a widely accepted assumption namely that refer to plural objects. I show singularity/plurality can correlate with whether expresses modal or adverbial quantification. use correlation motivate where number-neutral by default, but be forced denote singular referents. idea is formally implemented within dynamic framework Brasoveanu (2010).

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2163-5943', '2163-5951']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5341