"collective" verb. The collective/distributive distinction raises an important issue: how to treat the semantics of plural NPs uniformly. An eadiar paper by Scha ("Distributive, Collective and Cumulative Quantification" [7], hereinafter "DCC") presented a formal treatment of this issue which exploits an idea about the semantics of plural NP's which is due to Bartsch [1]: plural NP's are a l w a y s interpreted as quantifying over sets rather than individuals; verbs are correspondingly always treated as collective predicates applying to sets. .
