edited by Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
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c1995
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x, 463 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-449) and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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Genericity : an introduction / Manfred Krifka ... [et al.] -- Stage-level and individual-level predicates / Angelika Kratzer -- Individual-level predicates as inherent generics / Gennaro Chierchia -- Truth conditions of generic sentences : two contrasting views / Gregory N. Carlson -- Focus and the interpretation of generic sentences / Manfred Krifka -- Indefinites, adverbs of quantification, and focus semantics / Mats Rooth -- What some generic sentences mean / Nicholas Asher and Michael Morreau -- Semantic constraints on type-shifting anaphora / Alice ter Meulen -- Generic information and dependent generics / Godehard Link -- The semantics of the common noun kind / Karina Wilkinson -- Common nouns : a contrastive analysis of Chinese and English / Manfred Krifka -- The marking of the episodic/generic distinction in tense-aspect systems / Östen Dahl