Michael Gagnon at SALT23 in Santa Cruz
April 29, 2013
Linguistics
May 3-5 at
Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23,
Michaël presents "Part and Parcel of Eliding Partitives". This paper argues, contrary to the common analysis, that in sentences such as "Ten students entered and many sat down", "many" is equivalent not to "many students" but rather to "many of them," with ellipsis of the partitive.
