Manifestations of genericity / / by Yael Greenberg

• Autore: Greenberg Yael
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Genericalness (Linguistics); Semantics; Pragmatics
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Bar-Ilan University, 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-320) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Manifestations of Genericity; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Comparing Sentences with Generically Interpreted Indefinite Singular (IS) and Bare Plural (BP) Subjects: The Traditional Approach and its Problems; 1. Introduction; 2. A brief review of central genericity phenomena and analyses; 2.1 Genericity in English; 2.2 The I (characteristic)/D (kind) genericity distinction; 2.3 Relevance of the characteristic/kind distinction to the IS/BP distinction; 2.4 The Basic Semantic Structure of Characteristic (I-) Generics ; 2.5 The Semantics of the generic operator-the modal approach2.5.1 Tolerance of exceptions, law likeness, and counterfactual support of characteristic generics; 2.5.2 Kratzer's (1981) analysis of nongeneric modal verbs and its application to the semantics of gen.; 2.6 Summary; 3. Unexpected differences between minimal pairs of is and BP sentences; 3.1 Differences between IS and BP sentences in temporally modified sentences; 3.2 Differences in the level of "law-likeness" and type of rules expressed by IS and Bp sentences; 3.2.1 The original intuition; 3.2.2 Problems with the original intuition ; 3.3 Unexpected differences between minimal pairsof IS and BP sentences with subjects expressing"extremely unnatural classes"3.4 Unexpected differences between minimal pairsof IS and BP sentences with VPs expressing"Extremely Unconnected Properties" orextremely unconnected properties; 3.5 The different effect of the presence/absence of contextual support on the felicity of BP and IS sentences ...; 3.5.1 "Out of the blue" vs. contextually supported IS and BP sentences; 3.5.2 Contextual support does not always help: Is sentences in pure inductive scenarios ; 3.6 IS and BP sentences which do not differ so much4. Parallels between the IS/BP distinction in temporally restricted and classic generic constructions; 5. the basic intuition; 5.1 Carlson's (1995) distinction between the"inductive" and the "rules and regulations"approaches toTo (I-) genericity ...; 5.2 The intuitive underlying difference between is and BP sentences; 6. An outline of this work; Chapter 2. "in Virtue of" Generalizations, and the Semantics and Pragmatics of is Sentences; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Basic Characteristics of IS Sentences; 1.2 The basic intuition ; 1.3 The Direction of Formalization: "in virtue of"properties restricting the accessibility relation of IS sentences ...1.4 The pragmatic aspects in the semantics of IS sentences and their formalization; 2. Ability of previous theories to account for the data; 2.1 Krifka (1987): modality vs. nonmodality; 2.2 Unspecified modal base of I- generics-Krifka et al. (1995) and Krifka (1995); 2.3 Cohen (2001): IS sentences as expressing rules; 3. Chierchia's (1995) and Brennan's (1993) theories: a formalization of the "in virtue of" intuition ; 3.1 Chierchia (1995): "felicity conditions" restricting the accessibility relation
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of ""episodic genericity,"" existential presuppositions, and contextual restrictions of generics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Manifestations of genericity
• ISBN: 1-135-88565-6; 1-135-88566-4; 1-280-17568-0; 9786610175680; 0-203-01019-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783999303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.