Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality. Linguistic Facts and Semantic Analyses

Friederike Moltmann

Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality. Linguistic Facts and Semantic Analyses

In Massimiliano Carrara, Alexandra Arapinis & Friederike Moltmann (eds.), Unity and Plurality. Logic, Philosophy, and Semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 93-120 (2016)

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Abstract	This paper defends 'plural reference', the view that definite plurals refer to several individuals at once, and it explores how the view can account for a range of phenomena that have been discussed in the linguistic literature.
Keywords	plurals definite descriptions plural reference
Categories	Descriptions in Philosophy of Language Mereology in Metaphysics Philosophy of Language, Miscellaneous in Philosophy of Language Plural Quantification in Philosophy of Language Speaker Meaning and Semantic Meaning in Philosophy of Language (categorize this paper)
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