The
pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the
Rational Speech Act Model
Benjamin Spector
December 2017
This is a minimally revised
version of a paper published in the Proceedings
of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium.
This paper offers an
account of two puzzling properties of the intepretation of plural definites,
known as 'Homogeneity' and 'Non-Maximality'. It reconstructs Kriz &
Spector’s proposal within the framework of the Rational Speech Act model.