The Generic Book

- Contents

List of Contributors
1: Genericity: An Introduction
Manfred Krifka, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Gregory N. Carlson, Alice ter
Meulen, Gennaro Chierchia, Godehard Link.
2: Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates
Angelika Kratzer
3: Individual-Level Predicates as Inherent Generics
Gennaro Chierchia
4: Truth Conditions of Generic Sentences: Two Contrasting Views
Gregory N. Carlson
5: Focus and the Interpretation of Generic Sentences
Manfred Krifka
6: Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification, and Focus Semantics
Mats Rooth
7: What Some Generic Sentences Mean
Nicholas Asher, Michael Morreau.
8: Semantic Constraints on Type-Shifting Anaphora
Alice ter Meulen
9: Generic Information and Dependent Generics
Godehard Link
10: The Semantics of the Common Noun Kind
Karina Wilkinson
11: Common Nouns: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English
Manfred Krifka
12: The Marking of the Episodic/Generic Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems
Osten Dahl
Bibliography of Recent Work on Genericity
Name Index
Language Index
Subject Index
Cognitive Science: Language
Language and Linguistics: Formal Logic and Computational Linguistics | Syntax and Semantics
Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language
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