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We started this book with the assumption that there were two very different types of conjunction: group forming, and sentential; and have come in the end to the view that all conjunction, even sentential conjunction, is group forming. Along the way we have seen a variety of analyses of the collective/distributive alternation, have examined how this alternation connects to related semantic notions such as spatial proximity and temporal simultaneity, and have considered analogs in the semantics of verbs to plurality in the semantics of nouns. It was, in fact, our analyses of the collective/distributive alternation and of verbal plurality which provided us with the theoretical apparatus needed to treat all conjunction as group forming.
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Lasersohn, P. (1995). Conclusion. In: Plurality, Conjunction and Events. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8581-1_15
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