Title: Genericity /
Authors: Mari, Alda.; Beyssade, Claire.; Del Prete, Fabio
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Genericalness (Linguistics)
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Generic plural and mass indefinites -- The scope of bare nominals -- Free relatives as kind-denoting terms -- Two ways of referring to generalities in German -- Hab and gen in the expression of habituality -- Bare habituals and singular indefinites -- Imperfectivity and habituality in Italian -- Ability, action, and causation : from pure ability to force -- On dispositional sentences -- On the distinction between abstract states, concrete states, and tropes -- More truths about generic truth -- No quantification without reinterpretation -- The roots of genericity : indefinite singulars vs definite plurals -- Definitional generics -- Dutchmen are good sailors : generics and gradability.