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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