Stubborn Distributivity, Multiparticipant Nouns and the Count/Mass Distinction *

Abstract

There are predicates that I call “stubbornly distributive ” based on what happens when they are combined with plural count noun phrases. I will use these stubbornly distributive predicates to identify and analyze a certain subset of mass nouns which I call “multi-participant nouns”. Traffic and rubble are multi-participant nouns but furniture

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