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This paper primarily provides an alternative analysis for the quantifier every combined with a plural numeral noun phrase, criticizing Landman (2004), who claims that the quantifier every exceptionally forms a complex determiner with a numeral that follows it against the general structure that he advocates for a numeral expression. His analysis applies a group-forming operation at an intuitively inappropriate level and, as a result, must apply a member-specifying operation unnecessarily. Instead, I argue that the group-forming operation must apply to the entire phrase that comprises a numeral and a noun phrase. Then, the quantifier every as a pluralization operator applies to the group. Extending the analysis to the case where every combines with a temporal adverbial phrase, I provide a further evidence for the existence of group events that can be not only semantically but also theoretically attested.
