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We provide a semantic analysis of respective readings, including butnot limited to the interpretation of examples containing the adverbrespectively, which accounts for a number of facts that haveeither proven difficult for previous studies or heretofore goneunnoticed in the literature. The analysis introduces the new notionsof property sum and proposition sum which integrate smoothly with existing analyses of plurals and distributivity. The analysis also admits of a straightforward account of previouslyunacknowledged examples involving filler-gap dependencies that areproblematic for contemporary syntactic theories. Ramifications anddirections for future research are discussed.
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Gawron, J.M., Kehler, A. The Semantics of Respective Readings, Conjunction, and Filler-Gap Dependencies. Linguistics and Philosophy 27, 169–207 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:LING.0000016452.63443.3d
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