Collective quantification and the homogeneity constraint  

Oleh:

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at New York University, May 30th - June 1st, 2014, page 453-472.
Topik: collective quantification; mass quantification; homogeneous; cumulative; divisive; groups; sums; maximality operator; plural logic
Fulltext: 26, 2428-2656-1-PB(1).pdf (283.56KB)

Isi artikel

The main theoretical claim of the paper is that a slightly revised version of the analysis of mass quantifiers proposed in Roeper 1983, Lønning 1987 and Higginbotham 1994 extends to collective quantifiers: such quantifiers denote relations between sums of entities (type e), rather than relations between sets of sums (type ). Against this background I will explain a puzzle observed by Dowty (1986) for all and generalized to all quantifiers by Winter 2002: plural quantification is not allowed with all the predicates that are traditionally classified as “collective”. The Homogeneity Constraint will be shown to be too strong and it will be replaced with the weaker requirement of Divisiveness (for both collective and mass quantifiers). Non-divisive predicates such as form a mafia are also allowed, but they will be argued to induce a different type of quantifier, which denotes a relation between entities and sets of entities.

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