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  <Title>MULTI-LEVEL PLURALS AND DISTRIBUTIVITY</Title>
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7 CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have shown how treatments of the collectJve/dis~butive distinction must take into account the phenomenon of &amp;quot;partial distributivity', in which a collective verb optionally distributes over the outer levels of structure in what we call a &amp;quot;multi-level&amp;quot; plural. Multiple levels of structure must be allowed in the semantics of such plural NPs as &amp;quot;the boys and the girls&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;the committees&amp;quot;, etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have presented a computational mechanism which accounts for these phenomena through a framework of recursive translation rules. This .'ramework generates quantifications over alternative levels of plural structure in an NP, and can handle NPs of arbitrarily complex plural structure, It is economical in its means of producing arbitrary numbers of readings: the multiple readings of the sentence such as &amp;quot;The juries and the committees gathered&amp;quot; are expressed with just one translation rule.</Paragraph>
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