Flexible Summativity: a Type-logical Approach to Plural Semantics
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This paper explores some theoretical properties of summativity, a generalization of cumulativity. It presents an approach to plural semantics in which summativity can apply not only to lexical predicates, but also to partially saturated predicates. It is shown how this approach can be tied to an explicit type-logical syntax.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017