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Genericity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (458 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191637049
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: GenericityDDC classification:
  • 415
LOC classification:
  • P299.G44.G46 2013eb
Online resources:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics. It gathers new work from senior and young researchers and is organized 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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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics. It gathers new work from senior and young researchers and is organized 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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