This paper presents an extension to the Reference Domain Theory (Salmon-Alt, 2001) in order to solve plural references. While this theory doesn’t take plural reference into account in its original form, this paper shows how several entities can be grouped together by building a new domain and how they can be accessed later on. We introduce the notion of super-domain, representing the access str...

We describe an eye-tracking experiment that tested the effect of syntactic predictability on skipping rates during reading. We found that plural noun phrases were skipped more often than singular noun phrases, in syntactic contexts which induced a high expectation for a plural. We interpret this effect as evidence that the plural noun phrase has been predicted ahead of time. The results indicat...

The referents of plural NP's denote groups, by their nature, but at the same time, we want to say that they denote atomic individuals in some cases. By analyzing such dual nature of plural Np's in Situation Semantics, we o er a straightforward and uni ed analysis which accounts not only for various readings of plural NP's but also for the so-called Committee and Judge/Hangman Puzzles.

We present a model for resolution of plural references on groupings based on Reference Domains Theory. While the original theory doesn’t takes plural reference into account, this paper shows how several entities can be grouped together by building a new domain and how they can be accessed later on. We introduce the notion of superdomain representing the access structure to all the plural refere...