Abstract
The word and can be used both intersectively and collectively. A major theme in research on coordination has been the quest for a lexical entry that unifies these uses, either based on boolean intersection or based on collective formation. Focusing on English noun- noun coordination, this paper argues for the boolean option. This immediately delivers the intersective behavior of and, as in liar and cheat; as for its collective behavior, as in man and woman, it falls out of the interaction of and with a series of independently motivated type shifters, mainly taken from Winter (2001). Such coordinations are interpreted collectively because the two nouns are interpreted in the same way as the DPs in a man and a woman.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 83-90 |
Number of pages | 8 |
State | Published - 2013 |
Event | 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2013 - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Dec 18 2013 → Dec 20 2013 |
Other
Other | 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, AC 2013 |
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Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Amsterdam |
Period | 12/18/13 → 12/20/13 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computational Theory and Mathematics