Inclusive Plurals and the Theory of Number

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ID3134438
AutoresL F Marti (0000-0003-0195-8109, Queen Mary University of London, autor correspondente), Luisa Marti (Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom)
Ano2020
Volume51
Fascículo1
Páginas37-74
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditoraThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00330
OpenAlexW2902328741
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas57

I argue that an account of both inclusive plurals and the crosslinguistic typology of grammatical number requires postulating a [−atomic] feature (or something very much like it) in the structure of exclusive-plural DPs. When combined with the only theory we currently have that accounts for the crosslinguistic typology of number ( Harbour 2014 ), theories in which the exclusive-plural DPs of a language with inclusive plurals are [−atomic]-less under- or overgenerate with respect to that typology. These problems disappear as soon as the structure of exclusive plural DPs contains a component that generates exclusive-plural interpretations, either Harbour's [−atomic] feature (added to a system with a second, [−atomic]-less structure, a proposal compatible with, e.g., Farkas and de Swart 2010 ) or a predicate-level exhaustivity operator (from Mayr 2015

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