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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 TheIrish 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

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

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

Qu''est-ce que le sens d''un propos ? À côté de ce qui est explicitement dit, il y a toujours, dans la parole écrite ou orale, des sous-entendus, des présupposés, de l''implicite.- Même un enfant de dix ans aurait compris !Sous le sens s''intéresse à la façon dont l''implicite est construit et propose une typologie des implicites, qui trouvent leur source dans les mots, dans les usages conversationnels ou même dans de simples intonations.Présentant l''état actuel des recherches sur les implicatures et les présuppositions étudiées à la fois par les philosophes, les linguistes et les psychologues, cet ouvrage informera directement l''étudiant, le chercheur travaillant sur le langage, mais aussi l''enseignant de français intéressé par l''analyse de texte et le français langue seconde (FLS).À ce jour, aucun livre sur ces questions n''est disponible dans notre langue, malgré une littérature foisonnante et en plein renouveau dans le monde anglo-saxon.

Qu''est-ce que le sens d''un propos ? À côté de ce qui est explicitement dit, il y a toujours, dans la parole écrite ou orale, des sous-entendus, des présupposés, de l''implicite.- Même un enfant de dix ans aurait compris !Sous le sens s''intéresse à la façon dont l''implicite est construit et propose une typologie des implicites, qui trouvent leur source dans les mots, dans les usages conversationnels ou même dans de simples intonations.Présentant l''état actuel des recherches sur les implicatures et les présuppositions étudiées à la fois par les philosophes, les linguistes et les psychologues, cet ouvrage informera directement l''étudiant, le chercheur travaillant sur le langage, mais aussi l''enseignant de français intéressé par l''analyse de texte et le français langue seconde (FLS).À ce jour, aucun livre sur ces questions n''est disponible dans notre langue, malgré une littérature foisonnante et en plein renouveau dans le monde anglo-saxon.

This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.