Weak necessity modals as homogeneous pluralities of worlds

We claim that weak necessity modals like English "should" are referential expressions denote pluralities of worlds, against the standard analysis, according to which all modal auxiliaries quantifiers. Weak pattern plural definites when tested for homogeneity effects (Löbner 2000, Križ 2016): they have scopeless readings under negation, tolerate exceptions in certain discourse contexts, and exhibit other properties characteristic homogeneous definite plurals. also discuss how extend this analysis French Javanese, built compositionally from strong by adding subjunctive morphology.