Taking on semantic commitments, II: collective versus distributive readings

1999/02/01 by Lyn Frazier, Jeremy M Pacht, Jeremy M. Pacht +1 · 7 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Adverb #Ambiguity #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Covert #Distributive property #Distributivity #Interpretation (philosophy) #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Polysemy #Predicate (mathematical logic) #Psychology #Reductio ad absurdum #Semantics (computer science) #Vagueness #Verb

paper · doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00002-5

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