Abstract

In this article, I address the question of the semantic analysis of structured plurals, that is, expressions like these children and those children, which seem to refer to pluralities of individuals divided into groups. In the first half of the article, I describe a variety of structured plural expressions and predicates they can combine with and I point out the difficulties faced by two extant approaches to the semantics of plurals: inflationary and cover-based semantics. In the second half of the article, I propose an alternative account which combines elements from both of them. The main novelty of my proposal is that, by capitalising on the background operation of certain pragmatic principles, it correctly formalises the fact that some interpretations of ambiguous sentences involving structured plurality are more accessible than others.

中文翻译：

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重新考虑结构化的多元化

摘要

在本文中，我将解决结构化复数（即像这些子代和这些子代的表达）的语义分析问题，这似乎是指将个人分为几组的多元性。在本文的前半部分，我描述了多种结构化的复数表达式，并断言它们可以与之结合，并指出了两种现成的复数语义方法所面临的困难：通货膨胀和基于掩盖的语义。在本文的后半部分，我提出了一个替代帐户，该帐户将两者的元素结合在一起。我的建议的主要新颖之处在于，通过利用某些语用原则的背景操作，它正确地形式化了以下事实：涉及结构化复数的歧义句子的某些解释比其他解释更易获得。