The philosophy papers blog is up, although the little post this morning did announce most of what is happening.

In the semantics group this afternoon, there was an odd divergence of opinion about this sentence.

No kids read seven books each.

Is this sentence somehow defective? My intuition at first (and even at last) is that it’s an awful sentence. I could tell what it would mean were it meaningful, but it sounds awful. However, most people there thought that maybe it is just somehow pragmatically defective. This turned out to matter a bit, because if there should be some rule blocking the combination of ‘each’ with quantifier phrases like ‘no kids’, it seems that will cause complications elsewhere.