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Higher-order plurality as a solution to Xiang's (2021) puzzle
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Xiang (2021) notes the following puzzle: plural wh-questions involving certain collective predicates are predicted to carry a uniqueness presupposition (Dayal 1996), yet intuitively they don't (cf. Gentile and Schwarz 2020). She proposes that such questions have 'higher-order readings' (Spector 2007, 2008), and crucially that they have answers naming boolean conjunctions. We show that recourse to …
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