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  <Title>The Role of Cardinality in Metonymic Extensions to Nouns</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have presented an approach to deal with cardinality aspects of metonymic extensions to nouns. We have discussed a variety of constellations with pronominal references to implicitly related items, sometimes associated with subtle conditions, including cross-language differences between English and German. In order to build explicit logical forms with cardinality specifications, we have extended entries in Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon by default quantifier specifications, and we have described methods for exploiting these entries accordingly: Metonymic extensions are introduced on the basis of events represented in the roles of the Qualia structure, and member or subset relations are introduced on the basis of the associated quantifier specification. Our method for building explicit logical forms challenges Stallard's distinction of predicative and referential readings of metonymic expressions: it produces different scopings that reflect proper quantifier dominance relations rather than pronominal accessibility conditions, and it allows for additional cases of pronominal reference. In addition, our method enables a more precise attachment of contextual specifications to related entities, and it yields a better basis for reference resolution to metonyrnically related entities.</Paragraph>
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