Universal 1600:

Original: If a language has DPs at all, it has DPs of type e. If it has no DPs distinct from NPs, it has some way to use NPs referentially, as type e.
Standardized: IF there are DPs of types other than e, THEN there are DPs of type e.
When there are no DPs distinct from NPs, NPs can be used as type e.
Keywords: quantification, NP, DP, semantic type
Domain: syntax, semantics
Type: implication
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: unspecified
Source: Partee 2000: 5

FP

FP

1. Partee (2000) claims the need to distinguish N and NP (common noun phrase) on the one hand, and DP (determiner phrase) on the other hand, and to find out.2. Default type assignments for NP, DP are: (a) NP: (common noun phrase); (b) DP: e (referential DPs) and <,t> (DPs as generalized quantifiers, à la Montague).3. See also ##1603, 1203.

1. May 2020

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