Genericity

Genericity

by Beyssade, Claire Del Prete, Fabio,, (Researcher in linguistics) Mari, Alda

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Providing an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics this volume gathers new work from senior and young researchers. It is organised along three main areas of study: the generic and individuals; genericity and time; and the sources of genericity and types of judgment.

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  • Full title :Genericity / edited by Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade and Fabio Del Prete.

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Providing an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics this volume gathers new work from senior and young researchers. It is organised along three main areas of study: the generic and individuals; genericity and time; and the sources of genericity and types of judgment.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 439 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780191637049, 0191637041, 9780191745775, 0191745774
  • oclc:ocn859155003
  • LC Classification:P299.G44
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; General Preface; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Generic Plural and Mass Indefinites; 3 The Scope of Bare Nomináis; 4 Free Relatives as Kind-Denoting Terms; 5 Two Ways of Referring to Generalities in German; 6 Hab and Gen in the Expression of Habituality; 7 Bare Habituais and Singular Indefinites; 8 Imperfectivity and Habituality in Italian; 9 Ability Action, and Causation: From Pure Ability to Force; 10 On Dispositional Sentences; 11 On the Distinction between Abstract States, Concrete States, and Tropes

12 More Truths about Generic Truth 13 No Quantification without Reinterpretation; 14 The Roots of Genericity: Indefinite Singulars vs Definite Plurals; 15 Definitional Generics; 16 Dutchmen are Good Sailors: Generics and Gradability; References; Index

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Subjects

Genericalness (Linguistics) générique (linguistique) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Pragmatics Pragmatique Semantics, Comparative Sémantique comparée

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Beyssade, Claire Del Prete, Fabio,, (Researcher in lingu… Mari, Alda

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