Pluractionality, also referred to as verbal plurality (Yu 2003) or event plurality (Wood 2007), is a morphological category that indicates some sort of “multiplicity” in the semantic reading of a verb. The prototypical interpretation of a pluractional verb is that of iterativity (repeated actions). This reading is illustrated in the following examples from Ingush, a Nakh language of the Northea...

We investigate implementation of social choice functions as mappings from states to lotteries under complete information. We assume that for every agent, any pair of distinct states induces distinct preferences. A social choice function is called Condorcet-decisive if it always enforces the Condorcet winner among its range. We introduce plurality mechanisms, where each agent makes a single anno...