The but not all: A partitive account of plural definite descriptions

Mind and Language

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 402-426

  Brogaard, Berit ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547882747     PISSN: 02681064     EISSN: 14680017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2007.00314.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abbott, B. 1996 : Doing without a partitive constraint. In J. Hoeksema (ed Partitives: Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Partitive and Related Constructions, Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics (GRASS) 14. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 25 56.
2. Abbott, B. 2003 : A Reply to Szabo's 'Descriptions and Uniqueness. Philosophical Studies, 113, 223 231.
3. Abbott, B. Forthcoming: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Definite Descriptions in English. In J. Gundel and N. Hedberg (eds Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reference Processing.
4. Bach, K. 2004 : Descriptions: points of reference. In A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds Descriptions and Beyond. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
5. Boolos, G. 1984 : To be is to be a value of a variable (or to be some values of some variables). The Journal of Philosophy, 81, 430 449.
6. Breheny, R. 1999 : Context Dependence and Procedural Meaning: The Semantics of Definites. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, London : University College.
7. Brisson, C. 2003 : Plurals, all, and the nonuniformity of collective predication. Linguistics and Philosophy, 26, 129 84.
8. Brogaard, B. 2007a : Descriptions: predicates or quantifiers? Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 85, 117 136.
9. Brogaard, B. 2007b : Sharvy's Theory of Definite Descriptions Revisited. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 88, 160 180.
10. Buchanan, R. and Ostertag, G. 2005 : Has the problem of incompleteness rested on a mistake? Mind, 114, 889 913.
11. Carlson, G. 1977 : Reference to Kinds in English. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
12. Cartwright, H.M. 1996 : Some of a plurality. Noûs, 30, 137 157.
13. Davidson, D. 1967 : Causal relations. Journal of Philosophy, 64, 691 703.
14. Diesing, M. 1992 : Indefinites. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
15. Dowty, D. 1987 : Collective predicates, distributive predicates, and all. In F. Marshall, et al. (eds ESCOL '86: Proceedings of the Third Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Columbus : Ohio State University.
16. Drewery, A. 2005 : The logical form of universal generalizations. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83, 373 93.
17. Fara, D.G. 2001 : Descriptions as predicates. Philosophical Studies, 102, 1 42. Originally published under the name 'Delia Graff'.
18. Fara, D.G. 2006 : Descriptions with adverbs of quantification, Philosophical Issues, 16, 65 87.
19. Fodor, J. and E. Lepore. 1998 : The emptiness of the lexicon. Linguistic Inquiry, 29, 269 88.
20. Girbau, N.M. 2003 : One or Two Nouns? Proceedings of the XXIX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Urbino.
21. Grice, P. 1989 : Studies in the Way of Words. Cambridge, MA and London : Harvard University Press.
22. Heim, I. 1982 : The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases. Doctoral dissertation, Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts.
23. Higginbotham, J. and B. Schein, 1989 : Plurals. In J. Carter and R. Dechaine (eds Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, 19, GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 161 75.
24. Horn, L. Forthcoming: Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung.
25. Jackendoff, R. 1977 : X Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
26. Kadmon, N. 1987 : On Unique and Non-Unique Reference and Asymmetric Quantification. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
27. Kamp, H. 1981 : A theory of truth and semantic representation. In J. Groenendijk, Janssen and M. Stokhof (eds Truth, Interpretation and Information. Dordrecht : Foris.
28. Kempson, R. 1975 : Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
29. King, J.C. 2004 : Anaphora, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2004 Edition), E.N. Zalta (ed at : http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/ spr2004/entries/anaphora/.
30. Koslicki, K. 1999 : Genericity and logical form. Mind & Language, 14, 441 466.
31. Ladusaw, W. 1982 : Semantic constraints on the English partitive construction. Proceedings of WCCFL, 1, 231 342.
32. Ludlow, P. and G. Segal 2004 : On a unitary semantical analysis for definite and indefinite descriptions. In A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds Descriptions and Beyond. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 420 37.
33. McKay, T. Forthcoming: Plural Predication. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
34. Neale, S. 1990a : Descriptions. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
35. Neale, S. 1990b : Descriptive pronouns and donkey anaphora. Journal of Philosophy, 87, 113 150.
36. Prior, A.N. and K. Fine, 1977 : Worlds, Times and Selves. London : Duckworth.
37. Rayo, A. 2002 : Word and Objects. Noûs, 36, 436 464.
38. Russell, B. [1919] 1993 : Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, 2nd edn. New York : Dover Publications.
39. Russell, B. and A. Whitehead. [1910] 1962 : Principia Mathematica. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
40. Schein, B. 1993 : Plurals and Events. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
41. Sharvy, R. 1980 : A more general theory of definite descriptions. The Philosophical Review, 89, 607 23.
42. Soames, S. Forthcoming: The gap between meaning and assertion. In M. Hackl and R. Thornton (eds) Asserting, Meaning, and Implying.
43. Stanley, J. 2002 : Modality and what is said. Philosophical Perspectives 16: Language and Mind, 321 44.
44. Stanley, J. and Z. Szabo. 2000 : On quantifier domain restriction. Mind & Language, 15, 219 61.
45. Szabo, Z. 2000 : Descriptions and uniqueness. Philosophical Studies, 101, 29 57.
46. Szabo, Z. 2003 : Definite descriptions without uniqueness: a reply to Abbott. Philosophical Studies, 114, 279 291.
47. Szabo, Z. 2005 : The loss of uniqueness. Mind, 114, 1185 1222.
48. Szabo, Z. 2006 : Comments on Berit Brogaard's 'The but not All: a new account of plural definite descriptions. The Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Dec. 30, 2007.
49. Yi, B. 2002 : Understanding the Many. New York : Routledge.
50. Zvolensky, Z. 1997 : Definite descriptions: what Frege got right and Russell didn't. Aporia, 7, 1 16.