Arndt Riester & Torgrim Solstad ( eds . ) : Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13
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The sentence With these three shirts and four pairs of pants, one can make twelve different outfits does not entail that one can dress twelve persons. The article proposes an analysis of “configurational” entities like outfits as individual concepts. It investigates the interaction of noun phrases based on such nouns with temporal and modal operators and in collective and cumulative interpretations. It also discusses a generalization from tokens to types, as in with the seven pieces of a tangram set, one can lay dozens of figures, suggesting an analysis of outfits and tangram figures in terms of properties. 1 What are Configurations? “Configurations” is a term that I will use for what the italicized terms in sentences like the following refer to: (1) a. You have 3 shirts and 4 pairs of pants. How many different outfits can you make? [...] You get twelve outfits. Not counting if a dude makes an outfit without a shirt, or a crazy person without pants. 1 b. [Description of a tangram set.] With just seven simple pieces, you can make dozens of amazing shapes. 2 c. [Description of fischertechnik crane construction kit:] 100 Bauteile ermöglichen den Bau dreier unterschiedlicher, einfacher Kräne. „With 100 construction parts one can build three different, simple cranes.‟ 3 1 answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080723031442AAYcny3. The text continues: Now let’s say you throw in three different pairs of socks...then you'd have 3 shirts times 4 pairs of pants times 3 pairs of socks for 36. It can get crazy the more options you throw in there. 2 www.amazon.com/Think-Fun-4985-Tangram/dp/B000BXHP04
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