In nouns denoting sets, reference to the given set may relate to its individual elements (‘distributive’) or to the set as a whole (‘non-distributive’). In sentences, such reference causes ambiguity if the meanings of the other...

n. In GB, a process which is posited as occurring between S-structure and Logical Form, by which quantifiers are assumed to be moved to the leftmost position in a sentence, where they can be interpreted as binding variables in the sentence in much the...

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"Singular" they is a popular, non-technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context. "Singular" they remains morphologically and syntactically plural (it still takes plural forms of...