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Title Genericity / edited by Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade and Fabio Del Prete
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 439 pages)
Series Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 43
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 43.
Contents Cover; Contents; General Preface; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Generic Plural and Mass Indefinites; 3 The Scope of Bare NominĂ¡is; 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-429) and index
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Subject Genericalness (Linguistics)
Semantics, Comparative.
Pragmatics.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Genericalness (Linguistics)
Pragmatics
Semantics, Comparative
Form Electronic book
Author Mari, Alda
Beyssade, Claire
Del Prete, Fabio (Researcher in linguistics)
ISBN 9780191637049
0191637041
9780191745775
0191745774