Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature.
Bare plurals ( dogs) behave in ways that quantified plurals ( some dogs) do not. For instance, while the sentence John owns dogs implies that John owns more than one dog, its negation John does not own dogs does not mean “John does not own more than one dog”, but rather “John does not own a dog”. A...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 353 - 408 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2009
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