Ambiguity and Quantification

Considered are sentences with mixed plural quantification & the problems these pose for the nature of ambiguity. On the basis of conflicting evidence (linguistic requirements suggesting no ambiguity, truth-conditional requirements suggesting ambiguity), it is proposed that semantic theory recogn...

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Published in:Linguistics and philosophy 1981-01, Vol.4 (2), p.259-309
Main Authors: Kempson, Ruth M., Cormack, Annabel
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