Plurals: individuals and sets in a richly typed semantics
Bruno Mery, Richard Moot, Christian Retoré · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014
We developed a type-theoretical framework for natural lan- guage semantics that, in addition to the usual Montagovian treatment of compositional semantics, includes a treatment of some phenomena of lex- ical semantic: coercions, meaning, transfers, (in)felicitous co-predication. In this setting we see how the various readings of plurals (collective, dis- tributive, coverings,...) can be modelled.