The Readings of Plural Noun Phrases in English  

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Gillon, Brendan S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 10 no. 2 (May 1987), page 199-220.

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The noun phrase which is the subject of the following sentence is susceptible to a collective construal as well as a distributive one. (1) The men wrote operas. If "the men" denotes Mozart and Handel, then the only construal on which it is true is the distributive one; if "the men" denotes Gilbert and Sullivan, then the only construal on which it is true is the collective one. In this essay, I shall address two questions: First, what is the nature of the variation in construal to which plural noun phrases are liable? Second, what is the range within which these construals vary? The first question raises the issue of whether the variation in construal is one of ambiguity, as suggested by McCawley (1968, pp. 142-155) or not, as suggested by Harnish (1976, pp. 313-331), Katz (1977, pp. 127-128), and Higginbotham (1981, pp. 97-102). The second question broaches a descriptive problem: what is the range of variation in construal, be it a matter of ambiguity or not? In due course, I shall conclude that the variation in construal is due to ambiguity and I shall provide a more descriptively adequate characterization of the range of variation.

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