Plurals: individuals and sets in a richly typed semantics

نویسندگان

  • Bruno Mery
  • Richard Moot
  • Christian Retoré
چکیده

We developed a type-theoretical framework for natural language semantics that, in addition to the usual Montagovian treatment of compositional semantics, includes a treatment of some phenomena of lexical semantic: coercions, meaning, transfers, (in)felicitous co-predication. In this setting we see how the various readings of plurals (collective, distributive, coverings,. . . ) can be modelled.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1401.0660  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014