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UNINA9910808553603321 |
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Autore |
Mari Alda |
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Titolo |
Genericity |
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Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BeyssadeClaire |
Del PreteFabio |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Genericalness (Linguistics) |
Pragmatics |
Semantics, Comparative |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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