The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT
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We investigate Aktionsart phenomena connected to sentences with plural NPs and spell out a definition of Aktionsarten that also applies to sentences that describe sums of events. We develop an algorithm that constructs Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) from sentences and that incorporates an Aktionsart calculus that is based on the Aktionsart definition presented. Defining Aktionsarten as properties of the extension of event types in interpreting models, we explain how different readings of plural NPs we consider the collective reading and specific distributive and cumulative readings modify the Aktionsart by keeping track of how they compositionally contribute to the event description and what the structural effects are on the extension of the description.
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