= which means that is a set of cardinality five composed of men who walk in the park and watch the birds. means there are exactly five men in the park who watch the birds. We turn now to the case of introducing plural entities by coordination (conjunction or disjunction). The lexical entry for conjunction obviously gives right truth conditions and offers an antecedent for subsequent anaphora, as in, for example: and Mary came. “John In such cases, where more than one specific antecedent is present in the They whistled”. discourse, the lexical entry for needs to search left for two (or three, or another they number) for instance: DPs, The last equality is due to the fact that we take the predicate to be whistled distributive (as opposed to collective).
= which means that is a set of cardinality five composed of men who walk in the park and watch the birds. means there are exactly five men in the park who watch the birds. We turn now to the case of introducing plural entities by coordination (conjunction or disjunction). The lexical entry for conjunction obviously gives right truth conditions and offers an antecedent for subsequent anaphora, as in, for example: “John and Mary came. They whistled”. In such cases, where more than one specific antecedent is present in the discourse, the lexical entry for they needs to search left for two (or three, or another number) DPs, for instance: The last equality is due to the fact that we take the predicate whistled to be distributive (as opposed to collective).
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