The Generic Book

Edited by Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier

Paper $63.00 ISBN: 9780226092928 Published August 1995

Cloth $202.00 ISBN: 9780226092911 Published August 1995

In an attempt to address the theoretical gap between linguistics and philosophy, 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.