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Genericity (Paperback, New)
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Genericity (Paperback, New)
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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