The Generic Book
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1995
Book
Hardback
474 pages
978-0-226-09291-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-09291-1 (9780226092911)
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Content
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