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A Semantics for Groups and Events, PDF eBook

A Semantics for Groups and Events PDF

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First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English.

The author defends against counterarguments the hypothesis that distributive predicates are predicates of groups, and not just individuals.

By defining the collective/distributive distinction in terms of event structure, he solves formal problems with previous group-level analyses.

The author notes that certain adverbials have a systematic ambiguity between a reading indicating collective action, and readings indicating spatial or temporal proximity; the event-based definition of collective action makes possible a parallel treatment of these readings.

This book presents a formal proposal on the algebraic structure of groups and events, and a semantically based analysis of number agreement.

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