Atoms and sets: A characterization of semantic number

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 493-505

  Winter, Yoad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agreement; Collective; Distributive; Number; Plural; Quantifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244284778     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438902760168581     Document Type: Article

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