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Plural kind terms in Germanic and Romance languages have non-generic uses in generalizations. A new approach explains how English and Italian plural forms map to kinds or properties, clarifying their interpretation.

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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Semantics
  • Comparative Grammar

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  • Traditional linguistic theories assumed generalizations uniformly involve generic quantification.
  • Previous accounts struggled to explain the distribution of plural kind terms in generalizations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate non-generic uses of plural kind terms in generalizations across Germanic and Romance languages.
  • To propose a novel framework for mapping nominal forms to their interpretations, integrating existing theories.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of English, Italian, and French plural forms (bare and definite).
  • Examination of nominal interpretation in generalizations and episodic sentences.
  • Integration of frameworks by Chierchia (1998) and Longobardi (2001).

Main Results:

  • Plural kind terms exhibit definite, non-generic uses in generalizations.
  • English bare plurals map to kinds or properties; Italian definite plurals map to kinds (non-referential); Italian bare plurals map to properties.
  • The proposed mapping explains the behavior of these expressions in various contexts, including episodic sentences.

Conclusions:

  • The study refines the understanding of quantification in generalizations.
  • A unified approach to nominal form-meaning mapping is presented, accounting for cross-linguistic variation.
  • The findings address previously unexplained puzzles in the semantics of nominal expressions.