Topic: HUMAN SEMANTICS
Friends and colleagues:
Plurality, coordination, and the structure of DP
by Caroline Heycock & Roberto Zamparelli
Source: Semantics Archive
Starting from an analysis for the diverging crosslinguistic grammaticality of DP-internal
conjunctions such as this [man and woman] are in love, the article develops a theory of
the syntax/semantics interface within the DP and a novel proposal for the interpretation of
conjunction. The main claims are that plural/mass denotations are built in stages within
the DP, by the combined effect of number features and semantic operators associated with
functional heads; that languages differ as to whether the denotation of nouns is ltered for
singular or plural number, and that the word and crosslinguistically denotes SET PRODUCT,
an operation which, in different contexts, can mimic the behavior of intersection and union.
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Updated: Friday, 17 September 2004 01:45 BST
