"Todo" may take a Noun Phrase, a singular or a plural Determiner Phrase as its argument. "Todo" quantifies over parts of its restriction and its nuclear scope and it relates these two 'parts'. A sentence with "todo" will be ungrammatical if either the nominal argument or the predicate is not distributable. That is the case for collective predicates whitout sub-events wich nominal subject cannot be partitioned. Todo+NP, on the other hand, never gets a collective reading because the NP is a predicate and does not denote an entity that could be involved in a collective action.
distributivity; collective predicates; quantifiers; todo
