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Genericity /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ;
43. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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