02566nam 22005413u 450 991080855360332120240516003421.00-19-163704-1(CKB)2550000001123517(EBL)3055665(OCoLC)859155003(MiAaPQ)EBC3055665(EXLCZ)99255000000112351720160801d2012|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGenericity1st ed.Oxford OUP Oxford20121 online resource (458 p.)Oxford Studies in Theoretical LinguisticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-969181-9 1-299-93983-X 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 Tropes12 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;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.Oxford Studies in Theoretical LinguisticsGenericalness (Linguistics)PragmaticsSemantics, ComparativeGenericalness (Linguistics).Pragmatics.Semantics, Comparative.415Mari Alda1621593Beyssade Claire1163080Del Prete Fabio275760AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910808553603321Genericity3954966UNINA