 The first case involves definite plurals and mass nouns as well as conjunctions of definite NPs. The dominant view in natural language semantics is that the semantics of such NPs involves an ontology of unrestricted sums of individuals (in the case of plurals) and of quantities (in the case of mass NPs). That is, the things in my garden stands for the sum of the things in my garden, the definite mass NP the sand in the Sahara stands for the sum of the sand quantities in the Sahara, and the Eiffel Tower and the Dalai Lama stands for the sum of the Eiffel Tower and the Dalai Lama (Link 1983; Champollion &amp; Krifka 2017; Ojeda 1993). Motivations for that view are that definite plurals and mass NPs exhibit standard criteria of referentiality and share predicates with singular NPs with the same readings. Thus, heavy displays readings applying to the entire referent of the definite NPs below: