Vague Determiner Phrases and Distributive Predication

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  《New directions in logic, language and computation》|2011年|175-194|共20页
• 会议地点 Copenhagen(DK);Ljubljana(SI)
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  Heather Burnett;

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  University of California, Los Angeles;

  The goal of this paper is to provide the formal basis for a new approach to modelling the application of vague predicates like tall and bald to plural subjects like John and Mary and the men. In other words, we are interested in developing a new logical analysis for natural language sentences like Mary is tall and The men are bald. In the past 30 years, much research has been devoted to finding the proper logical framework to model the application of non-vague predicates to pluralities (cf. 16, 21 among others). Additionally, there has been a lot of work on how to model the application of vague predicates to singular terms (cf. 8, 5 among many others). However, the question of how to apply vague predicates to plural subjects and what complexities may arise in doing so has yet to be examined.;

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