Sentence examples for distributive construal from inspiring English sources

What about a distributive construal of the sentence?

It may be true if each piece of silverware, by itself, costs a hundred euros: this is the distributive construal.

Therefore, the distinction that concerns all mass nouns is not that between collective and distributive construals (nor that between collective, distributive and intermediate readings), but rather, that between collective and non-collective construals.

According to Gillon (1992), a sentence containing a mass noun may receive so-called "collective" and "distributive" construals, modulo the meaning of the particular lexical items composing the sentence, context of speech and knowledge of the world.

Distributive, collective, and intermediate construals: sentences with concrete mass nouns or plurals may receive so-called distributive, collective, and intermediate construals (cf. section 8 above).

This corresponds to a construal which is neither distributive (the strength of each man is impressive), nor collective (the strength of the men all together is impressive), but intermediate between distributive and collective.

What happens is that, in the specific case of mass nouns like silverware, one can identify, among the non-collective construals, one reading that may be called distributive and other readings that may be called intermediate.

In particular, non-collective, "intermediate" construals may be harder to get than the collective reading, or than the "distributive" reading if there is one.

What is "distributive intelligence"?

What is distributive negotiation?

Distributive versus procedural theories of fairness.