Distributivity and Plural Anaphora

dc.contributor.advisor	Pietroski, Paul	en_US
dc.contributor.author	LaTerza, Christopher	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Linguistics	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-10-11T05:58:52Z
dc.date.available	2014-10-11T05:58:52Z
dc.date.issued	2014	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation is an investigation of the semantics of sentences exhibiting plural referential dependencies. I will pursue two main lines of thought, each with consequences for the notion of distributivity as it is understood to apply to certain linguistic phenomena. First I consider the empirical scope of an event-based theory of distributivity, and argue that this approach can provide a simple and empirically adequate semantics for plural anaphoric relations such as reciprocity, reflexivity, and distance distributivity. The second part focuses on plural referential dependencies in attitude reports; in particular I address issues about distributivity and plurality that arise in cases of plural De Se ascription.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2002D
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/15826
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Linguistics	en_US
dc.title	Distributivity and Plural Anaphora	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US

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