The Generic Book

By: Gregory N. Carlson (Editor), Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 August 1995 | Edition Number 1

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A generic noun phrase is one that denotes a kind; a generic sentence reports a regularity that summarizes groups of particular episodes or facts. Standard semantic theories of reference have much trouble accounting for generic sentences and noun phrases, and the lack of an acceptable theory of such expressions has posed a serious epistemological problem for linguistics and philosophy.
In an attempt to address this theoretical gap, a group of semanticists, calling itself the Generic Group, has worked to develop a common view of genericity. Their research has resulted in this book, which consists of a substantive introduction and eleven original articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of the issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together, the papers that follow reflect the current state of the art in the semantics of generics, and afford insight into various generic phenomena.
The Generic Book will be a valuable source of facts and insights about generic constructions, and will appeal to linguists, logicians, and philosophers who are interested in genericity in language.

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Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Genericity: An Introduction
Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates
Individual-Level Predicates as Inherent Generics
Truth Conditions of Generic Sentences: Two Contrasting Views
Focus and the Interpretation of Generic Sentences
Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification, and Focus Semantics
What Some Generic Sentences Mean
Semantic Constraints on Type-Shifting Anaphora
Generic Information and Dependent Generics
The Semantics of the Common Noun Kind
Common Nouns: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English
The Marking of the Episodic/Generic Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems
Bibliography of Recent Work on Genericity
Name Index
Language Index
Subject Index
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