Genericity
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2012
458 pages
978-0-19-163704-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Alda Mari | Claire Beyssade | Fabio Del Prete
Genericity
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12/2012
Oxford University Press
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Content
- 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
