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Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
versão On-line ISSN 2007-736X
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BARCELO ASPEITIA, Axel Arturo. Cardinal nominals as collective predicates. Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx. [online]. 2021, vol.8, e137. Epub 06-Dez-2021. ISSN 2007-736X. https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v8i0.137.
I propose a novel semantic mechanism for explaining the fact that when modified cardinal terms like less than ten months or between two and five times are combined with distributive predicates, they impose an upper bound, but not when they are combined with non-distributive predicates. My explanation is based on the simple fact that distributive and non-distributive predicates have different domains of denotation and that, therefore, when we mix predicates of both kinds (for example when a cardinal predicate -which is non-distributive- pronominally modifies a distributive predicate), some kind of domain adjustment is required. To model this adjustment, I introduce a silent, totalizing operator that assigns to any distributive plural property P the collective plural property of being all the Ps.
Palavras-chave : semantics; plural; numerals; distributivity; collectivity.