The Average American has 2.3 Children  

Oleh:

Carlson, Greg ; Pelletier, Francis Jeffry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 19 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 73-104.
Topik: Average American; Linguistically Identical; Interesting Divergences
Fulltext: vol 19, no 1, p 73-104.pdf (163.55KB)

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Average-NPs, such as the one in the title of this paper, have been claimed to be ‘linguistically identical’ to any other definite-NPs but at the same time to be ‘semantically inconsistent’ with these other definite-NPs. To some this is an ironclad proof of the irrelevance of semantics to linguistics. We argue that both of the initial claims are wrong: average-NPs are not ‘linguistically identical’ to other definite-NPs but instead show a number of interesting divergences, and we provide a plausible semantic account for them that is not ‘semantically inconsistent’ with the account afforded other definite-NPs but in fact blends quite nicely with one standard account of the semantics for NPs.

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