Maximality and Plurality
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چکیده
This paper investigates the notion of the maximality effect and its formal implementation. It will be shown that the maximal witness sets that an anaphor can access are sensitive to the plural readings of the anaphor’s antecedents. It will also be shown that the formal semantics of the maximality effect should not be implemented on the interpretation of either determiners or anaphors. Instead, this paper proposes to implement the maximality effect on inter-sentential discourse relations.
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