- Embedded Distributivity
- Embedded Distributivity
- ㆍ 저자명
- Joh. Yoon-Kyoung
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 언어와 정보
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2010년|14권 2호|pp.17-32 (16 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국언어정보학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Distributivity has been one of the central topics in formal semantics. However, no due attention has been paid to embedded distributivity that very frequently occurs in natural languages. In this paper, I propose a formal analysis for embedded distributivity. In analyzing embedded distributivity, I employ no complicated mechanisms but pluralization. Since distributivity is reduced to plurality as Landman (2000) argues, employing plural formation is not an ad hoc approach to embedded distributivity. That is, the plural variable inserted in the process of deriving embedded distributivity is motivated in a principled manner since the pluralization occurs inside a pluralization operator. Moreover, I point out that the plural variable made available is not restricted to entities.