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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452264603321

Autore

Mari Alda

Titolo

Genericity [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012

ISBN

0-19-163704-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

BeyssadeClaire

Del PreteFabio

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Genericalness (Linguistics)

Pragmatics

Semantics, Comparative

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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;