English Bare Plurals and Relativized Mapping Hypothesis
Sang-Geun Lee · 언어 · 2010
Developing a unified topical structure, in which categorical and thetic statements are both analyzed as having a topic, i.e., individual topic or event topic, I propose a new mapping algorithm, Relativized Mapping Hypothesis. It posits that any material identified as topic in the unified topic structure should be mapped into a restrictive clause while any XP filled up with the head of a verb chain is defined as the domain of existential closure (i.e., nuclear scope). The Relativized Mapping Hypothesis, coupled with the unified topical structure, successfully captures a subtle nonuniformity in the interpretation of bare plurals.