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Genericity (Hardcover): Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete

Genericity (Hardcover)

Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete

Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 43

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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as it reveals our capacity to organize our perceived reality into classes and to describe regularities. The generic can be expressed at the level of a word or phrase (ie the potato in The Irish economy became dependent upon the potato) or an entire sentence (eg in John smokes a cigar after dinner, the generic aspect is a property of the expression, rather than any single word or phrase within it). This book gathers new work from senior and young researchers to reconsider the notion of genericity, examining the distinct contributions made by the determiner phrase (eg the notions of kind/individual) and the verbal predicate (eg the notions of permanency, disposition, ability, habituality, and plurality). Finally, in connection with the whole sentence, the analytic/synthetic distinction is discussed as well as the notion of normality. The book will appeal to both students and scholars in linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 43
Release date: December 2012
First published: March 2013
Editors: Alda Mari • Claire Beyssade • Fabio Del Prete
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969180-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-969180-0
Barcode: 9780199691807

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