Readings

A non-exhaustive bibliography of on the topic of distributivity and plurality. Students in the ESSLLI class are NOT expected to read all of these papers in a week(!); but if you are interested in doing research on distributivity, they are a good place to start. If you are new to the topic, you should first begin with the review articles.

Links are all live as of Summer 2019. If a link goes dead and you can't find a paper, please feel free to email me.

• Champollion, Lucas. 2010. Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement.
• Champollion, Lucas. 2016. Covert distributivity in algebraic event semantics.
• Champollion, Lucas. 2018. Distributivity, collectivity, and cumulativity.
  • review article
• Champollion, Lucas. 2019. Distributivity in formal semantics.
  • review article
• Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen et al. 2016. Why are distributive readings dispreferred?
• Dotlačil, Jakub. 2010. Anaphora and distributivity: A study of same, different, reciprocals and others.
• Dowty, David R. 1987. Collective predicates, distributive predicates, and all.
• Gillon, Brendan S. 1987. The readings of plural noun phrases in English.
• Glass, Lelia. 2018a. Deriving the distributivity potential of adjectives via measurement theory.
• Glass, Lelia. 2018b. Distributivity, lexical semantics, and world knowledge.
• Hamm, Fritz and Hinrichs, Erhard (editors). 1998. Plurality and quantification. (Contains Link's paper "Ten years of research on plurals: Where do we stand?").
• Kratzer, Angelika. 2007. On the plurality of verbs.
• Krifka, Manfred. 1992. Thematic relations as links between nominal reference and temporal constitution.
• Landman, Fred. 1989. Groups, I.
• Landman, Fred. 2000. Events and plurality: The Jerusalem lectures.
• Lasersohn, Peter. 1988. A semantics for groups and events.
• Link, Godehard. 1983. The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms: A lattice-theoretical approach.
• Maldonado, Mora et al. 2018. Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast.
• Maldonado, Mora et al. 2017. Priming plural ambiguities.
• Nouwen, Rick. 2015. Plurality.
  • review article
• Partee, Barbara. 2019. A chapter in the history of formal semantics in the twentieth century: Plurals.
• Poortman, Eva B. et al. 2018. Reciprocal expressions and the Maximal Typicality Hypothesis.
• Roberts, Craige. 1987. Modal subordination, anaphora, and distributivity.
• Schwarzschild, Roger. 2011. Stubborn distributivity, multi-participant nouns and the count/mass distinction.
• Schwarzschild, Roger. 1996. Pluralities.
• Scontras, Gregory and Noah Goodman. 2017. Resolving uncertainty in plural predication.
• Syrett, Kristen. 2019. Distributivity.
  • review article
• de Vries, Hanna. 2015. Shifting sets, hidden atoms: The semantics of distributivity, plurality and animacy.
• de Vries, Hanna. 2017. Two kinds of distributivity.
• Winter, Yoad and Remko Scha. 2015. Plurals.
  • review article
• Winter, Yoad. 2001. Plural predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis.
• Winter, Yoad. 2000. Distributivity and dependency.
• Winter, Yoad. 1997. Choice functions and the scopal semantics of indefinites.