Link's (1983) mereological framework treats 'and' as uniformly denoting sum-formation over a domain that includes both individuals and pluralities, making the collective-distributive distinction a matter of predicate type rather than conjunction type.
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Pluralities(as the other type of thing included in the domain)
Groups or collections of multiple things treated as a single unit (like 'a team' or 'the audience').
Predicate type(as what determines whether language is collective or distributive)
The category or kind of verb or descriptor you're using in a sentence—different predicates behave differently depending on what kind of action or quality they describe.
Sum-formation(as what the word 'and' does in this framework)
The process of combining multiple separate things into one unified collection or total.
domain(Both f1 and f2 have the reals as their domain)
The set of input values over which a function is defined.
individuals(metaphysical nihilism about objects)
Dasgupta's term for objects, understood as the entities nihilism denies