A New Semantics for Number

By Uli Sauerland. 2003

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All research on plurality has assumed the the [Pl]-feature on the noun is interpreted in some way. Bennett (1974) was the first to propose a semantics of number along these line, and this assumption has been adopted by all subsequent research. Furthermore most research has followed Bennett to assume that the [Pl]-feature on the verb remains uninterpreted in English, and is a reflex of syntactic agreement with the subject. A contemporary version of Bennett’s proposal (e.g. Chierchia 1998b, Schwarzschild 1996) assigns to the singular noun book a set of individuals as its extension, while the extension of the plural noun books includes groups of these individuals (and, for Schwarzschild, atomic individuals, as well). These denotations are illustrated in (2):

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Maximize Presupposition and Gricean reasoning (2012, methodology): “Following Heim (1991) and Sauerland (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) , several researchers have recently made use of a principle, Maximize Presupposition, which requires that one choose from a pre-determined set of competitors the Logical Form which marks the strongest presupposition compatible with the co”
• Maximize Presupposition! and local contexts (2011, methodology): “All formal statements of MP that I am aware of characterize it is a global constraint, operative at the root (e.g., Sauerland (2003a, 2008), Percus (2006), Schlenker (2006), Chemla (2008), Magri (2009)).”