Squibs and Discussion

Abstract

Perhaps the most influential theory of how reference to kinds varies across languages is that of Chierchia (1998). In this framework, determiners can in principle apply to kinds and NPs can in principle denote them. English, like other Germanic languages, is taken to realize the latter possibility. One might reasonably expect, then, that it would also realize the former-that is, that it would include a determiner that combines specifically with kind-denoting NPs. In this squib, I argue that it does. I examine the grammar of galore, a peripheral but nonetheless widely attested postnominal expression that has precisely this characteristic. © 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.