Friends and Colleagues: Plurality, Coordination, and the Structure of DP

Heycock, Caroline; Zamparelli, Roberto

doi:10.1007/s11050-004-2442-z

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“…Many previous works have described non-intersective interpretations of plural sentences such as example (3) above, as well as sentences with noun phrase conjunction as in (7) given below (e.g. Krifka 1990;Heycock and Zamparelli 2005).…”

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Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction

Poortman

2017

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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This chapter studies the interpretations of plural sentences with conjoined predicates, e.g. The boys are sitting and cooking and The boys are waving and smiling. Such sentences are sometimes interpreted intersectively, sometimes non-intersectively (or 'split'), and sometimes both interpretations appear to be allowed. This is surprising, since the logical structure of these sentences is identical, i.e. they differ only with respect to content words (e.g. sitting, cooking vs. waving, smiling). I propose that the logical interpretation of these sentences is systematically affected by lexical information tied to the complex predicate in the sentences, specifically their so-called typicality effects. With a set of experiments, I show that (a) the acceptability of a sentence in a non-intersective situation can be expressed in terms of a continuum and (b) each acceptability proportion is predicted by the typicality of the two conjoined predicates applying simultaneously. This way, I specify at least one of the relevant pragmatic considerations that determine the interpretation of a plural sentence with conjunctive predicates. More generally, these results stress the importance of conceptual structure of predicates in semantic theories of language.

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Section: Context and Logical Meaningmentioning

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“…Sentence (3) is generally interpreted such that a subset of the boys is sitting and the rest of the boys are standing-I will call this a 'split' interpretation 2 (Heycock and Zamparelli 2005). 1 Sentence (4) also allows such a 'split' interpretation, but crucially to a lesser extent than sentence (3).…”

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Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction

Poortman

2017

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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“…Other terms used in the literature for the same interpretation include generalized conjunction (Partee and Rooth 1983), boolean and (Krifka 1990), joint reading (Heycock and Zamparelli 2005).…”

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“…In Section 3, I will demonstrate that the recently proposed alternatives to Winter (2001), e.g. Heycock and Zamparelli (2005), are generally hard to extend to the case of two-place noun coordination.…”

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Relational Nouns and Reciprocal Plurality

Staroverov¹

2007

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“…Bernstein (1991Bernstein ( , 2001, Zamparelli (1995), Heycock and Zamparelli (2005), Borer (2005), among others), and (3b) as the structure of a DP displaying 'nominal negative inversion' with algum. In (3b) the presence of the DP-internal NegP blocks the occurrence of PlP (PluralP).…”

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Negation and NPI composition inside DP

Martins¹

2015

Syntax Over Time

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Friends and Colleagues: Plurality, Coordination, and the Structure of DP

Cited by 102 publications

References 32 publications

Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction

Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction

Relational Nouns and Reciprocal Plurality

Negation and NPI composition inside DP

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