This paper argues that lexical and operator-based analyses of distributivity are not in conflict, but are both necessary components of any theory of distributivity that aims to account for all the relevant data. I use several contrasts between plural definites (e.g. the girls) and group NPs (e.g. the group of girls) to show that we need an operator-based analysis of distributivity; this kind of distributivity is available with plural definites but not with group subjects, which can be explained under the common assumption that group NPs denote atoms rather than sums and hence do not allow quantification over their individual parts. At the same time, we need a lexical theory of distributivity to account for the various distributive interpretations that we do find with groups; a formalisation of such a theory is outlined in the final section of this paper.

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两种分配

本文认为，基于词法和基于运算符的分布分析并不矛盾，但它们都是旨在解释所有相关数据的任何分布理论的必要组成部分。我用复数definites之间几个对比（例如女孩）和组的NP（例如，该组的女孩）表明我们需要基于运营商的分布分析；这种分布性可用于多个定数，但不适用于组主题，这可以在以下共同假设下解释：组NP表示原子而不是总和，因此不允许对其各个部分进行量化。同时，我们需要一种分配性的词汇理论来解释我们在群体中发现的各种分配解释。本文最后一部分概述了这种理论的形式化。