Sentence examples for plural reference from inspiring English sources

It's not clear why both water and lions get a plural reference treatment, yet the referents of mass expressions get to retain some kind of ontological halo which distinguishes their referents from non-mass plural expressions.

But then, why reduce mass expressions to plural reference if one holds that water or a water plurality is something over and above those water molecules, yet denies that the lion plurality is something over and above those lions?

The headline's plural reference to "questions" exceeded the facts of the article.

As well as singular reference, there is plural reference (e.g., 'The gerbils in the pet store') and mass reference (e.g., 'the water in Lake Michigan').

Formally, there is need for no such single object as the object of a plural reference, no such unit as 'the many'.

If talk of stuff is to be paraphrased in terms of plural reference, what are the individuals slotted for this role?

Some hold that some plural referring expressions are irreducible to singular predication, quantification, and reference (Boolos 1984; McKay 2005; Yi 2005).

Many claim that plural logic, reference, predication, and quantification is ontologically innocent.

Sentences such as "The cheerleaders formed a human pyramid," or "Those dogs are sick" are examples of plural predication, quantification, and reference.

It is, rather, to treat collective intentionality as irreducible with respect to its content and mode, and relational with respect to the structures that ground individuals' reference to plural contents and their self-conception as subject-in-relations.

For example, the forms ja-o, kər-o in Gujarati təme kyã jao cho "Where are you going?" and šũ kəro cho "What are you doing?" are historically plurals but are used with reference to one person addressed by the pronoun təme.