Description: Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues, contrary to many of those theories, that plural discourse involves entities corresponding to sets of individuals but nothing corresponding to higher order sets. In the course of the book, the reader will become acquainted with the linguistics data that lies at the heart of this debate including extensive discussion of reciprocals and of collectives (such as the committee). In addition, a unique account of distributivity is proposed in which collective/distributive ambiguities are analyzed in pragmatic terms. The account capitalizes on the idea that the universe may be partitioned differently at different points in a discourse. Pluralities should be accessible to those with an introductory level background in model-theoretic semantics.
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Book Title: Pluralities (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 61)
Publication Name: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Item Length: 11.7in
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publication Year: 1996
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Ser.
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Roger Schwarzschild
Item Width: 8.3in
Item Weight: 38.8 Oz
Number of Pages: Xi, 212 Pages
