Generic Book

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

Av Gregory N. Carlson, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

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This work consists of an introduction and 11 articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of various issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together, the papers that follow reflect the current state of the art in the semantics of generics, and afford insight into various generic phenomena.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-08-01
Mått16 x 23 x 3 mm
Vikt794 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Antal sidor474
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226092911

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Preface and Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1: Genericity: An Introduction Manfred Krifka, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Gregory N. Carlson, Alice ter Meulen, Gennaro Chierchia, Godehard Link. 2: Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates Angelika Kratzer 3: Individual-Level Predicates as Inherent Generics Gennaro Chierchia 4: Truth Conditions of Generic Sentences: Two Contrasting Views Gregory N. Carlson 5: Focus and the Interpretation of Generic Sentences Manfred Krifka 6: Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification, and Focus Semantics Mats Rooth 7: What Some Generic Sentences Mean Nicholas Asher, Michael Morreau. 8: Semantic Constraints on Type-Shifting Anaphora Alice ter Meulen 9: Generic Information and Dependent Generics Godehard Link 10: The Semantics of the Common Noun Kind Karina Wilkinson 11: Common Nouns: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Manfred Krifka 12: The Marking of the Episodic/Generic Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems Osten Dahl Bibliography of Recent Work on Genericity Name Index Language Index Subject Index