ABSTRACT

0. A few preliminaries. Let us assume that the universe of discourse of a model for the semantic interpretation of English or similar languages contains, in addition to individuals in the usual sense, "groups" which have These groups will be used in the these individuals as members. interpretation of plural expressions. For example in a sentence like (1), we will assume that the verb phrase functions as a predicate on the group of students, a group which contains each of the individual students as a member: