Plurals: individuals and sets in a richly typed semantics
Computation and Language
2014-01-06 v1
Abstract
We developed a type-theoretical framework for natural lan- guage semantics that, in addition to the usual Montagovian treatment of compositional semantics, includes a treatment of some phenomena of lex- ical semantic: coercions, meaning, transfers, (in)felicitous co-predication. In this setting we see how the various readings of plurals (collective, dis- tributive, coverings,...) can be modelled.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.0660,
title = {Plurals: individuals and sets in a richly typed semantics},
author = {Bruno Mery and Richard Moot and Christian Retoré},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0660},
year = {2014}
}