The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice‐theoretical Approach

By Godehard Link. 2008

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The universal density of measurement (2007, background): “Definite descriptions presuppose that the predicate they combine with has a maximal element in its denotation (Link 1983):”
Acquisition of English Number Marking: The Singular-Plural Distinction (2006, background): “This distinction is expressed in the lexical quantifiers of all languages and is usually also expressed via the morphosyntactic properties of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and determiners (Cherchia, 1998; Corbett, 2000; Link, 1983 ).”
Property Theory, Adjectives, and Modification in Chinese (2006, neutral): “• singular individuals (standard assumption) • plural individuals (Chierchia, 1998a, b; Landman, 1988; Link, 1983 ) • kind individuals (Chierchia, 1998b) • ‘‘states,’’ ‘‘acts,’’ etc., as the individual images of predicates (Chierchia, 1984, 1985, 1998a)”
Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge between Aspect and Measurement (2017, background): “Technical background following Link (1987) – ∀z(z < A → B(z)) means: every part of A is a B – A ∈ (λz.”
Gradability in the nominal domain (2011, background): “70 Or the seem of other dialects such as Victorian English, written media English according to Matushansky (2002b). 71 Source: http://www.classicreader.com/book/2438/1/ 72 Source: http://www.atlasdowel.com/pages/blog/ 73 Source: British National Corpus 74 As already indicated, Matushansky (2002b) ex”