Description: Preface and Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1: Genericity: An Introduction Manfred Krifka, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Gregory N. Carlson, Alice ter Meulen, Gennaro Chierchia, Godehard Link. 2: Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates Angelika Kratzer 3: Individual-Level Predicates as Inherent Generics Gennaro Chierchia 4: Truth Conditions of Generic Sentences: Two Contrasting Views Gregory N. Carlson 5: Focus and the Interpretation of Generic Sentences Manfred Krifka 6: Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification, and Focus Semantics Mats Rooth 7: What Some Generic Sentences Mean Nicholas Asher, Michael Morreau. 8: Semantic Constraints on Type-Shifting Anaphora Alice ter Meulen 9: Generic Information and Dependent Generics Godehard Link 10: The Semantics of the Common Noun Kind Karina Wilkinson 11: Common Nouns: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Manfred Krifka 12: The Marking of the Episodic/Generic Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems Osten Dahl Bibliography of Recent Work on Genericity Name Index Language Index Subject Index

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