47. Genericity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. IX. Noun phrase semantics
4. 40. Pronouns 971
5. 41. Definiteness and indefiniteness 996
6. 42. Specificity 1025
7. 43. Quantifiers 1058
8. 44. Bare noun phrases 1088
9. 45. Possessives and relational nouns 1109
10. 46. Mass nouns and plurals 1131
11. 47. Genericity 1153
12. X. Verb phrase semantics
13. 48. Aspectual class and Aktionsart 1186
14. 49. Perfect and progressive 1217
15. 50. Verbal mood 1262
16. 51. Deverbal nominalization 1292
17. XI. Semantics of adjectives and adverb(ial)s
18. 52. Adjectives 1314
19. 53. Comparison constructions 1341
20. 54. Adverbs and adverbials 1390
21. 55. Adverbial clauses 1420
22. 56. Secondary predicates 1442
23. XII. Semantics of intensional contexts
24. 57. Tense 1463
25. 58. Modality 1484
26. 59. Conditionals 1515
27. 60. Propositional attitudes 1538
28. 61. Indexicality and De Se reports 1561
29. XIII. Scope, negation, and conjunction
30. 62. Scope and binding 1605
31. 63. Negation 1641
32. 64. Negative and positive polarity items 1660
33. 65. Coordination 1713
34. XIV. Sentence types
35. 66. Questions 1742
36. 67. Imperatives 1785
37. 68. Copular clauses 1805
38. 69. Existential sentences 1829
39. 70. Ellipsis 1849
40. XV. Information and discourse structure
41. 71. Information structure and truth-conditional semantics 1875
42. 72. Topics 1908
43. 73. Discourse effects of word order variation 1934
44. 74. Cohesion and coherence 1963
45. 75. Accessibility and anaphora 1988
46. 76. Discourse particles 2012