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Bare plurals in object position

Which verbs fail to give existential readings, and why?
  • Sheila Glasbey
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Non-definiteness and Plurality
This chapter is in the book Non-definiteness and Plurality
© 2006 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2006 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Non-definiteness, Plurality, and Incorporation
  5. The meaningful bounds of incorporation 35
  6. Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation 51
  7. The unmarked determiner 81
  8. Bare objects in Korean 107
  9. Bare plurals in object position 133
  10. Part II. Alternatives to the Incorporation Approach
  11. Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites 161
  12. Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals 191
  13. Generic sentences and bare plurals 219
  14. Part III. Numerical Non-definites
  15. Indefinite t ime phrases, in situ scope, and dual-perspective intensionality 237
  16. Identity of the domain of quantification for numerals 267
  17. Scope shift with numeral indefinites 291
  18. Take ‘five’ 311
  19. The semantics of paranumerals 331
  20. Index 355
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.95.07gla

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Non-definiteness, Plurality, and Incorporation
  5. The meaningful bounds of incorporation 35
  6. Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation 51
  7. The unmarked determiner 81
  8. Bare objects in Korean 107
  9. Bare plurals in object position 133
  10. Part II. Alternatives to the Incorporation Approach
  11. Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites 161
  12. Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals 191
  13. Generic sentences and bare plurals 219
  14. Part III. Numerical Non-definites
  15. Indefinite t ime phrases, in situ scope, and dual-perspective intensionality 237
  16. Identity of the domain of quantification for numerals 267
  17. Scope shift with numeral indefinites 291
  18. Take ‘five’ 311
  19. The semantics of paranumerals 331
  20. Index 355
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