An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening
Giorgio Magri · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2014
The plural definite the boys receives a universal interpretation in sentence (la), whereby the perceived equivalence with the universally quantified sentence (lb)*. Plural definites have thus been assumed to have a universal semantics. According to one classic implementation of this assumption, the plural definite the boys denotes the maximal sum of boys (Sharvy 1980 , Link 1984), yielding a universal interpretation (through collective predication or through a distributive operator with universal force). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.