Publications

Publication details [#6013]

Lawler, John M. 1973. Tracking the generic toad. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 9 : 320–331.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

presupposition | universal generic

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

An attempt to cope with universal generics such as 'My pet toad eats flies', departing from the presuppositional analysis of similar sentences containing 'only' and 'always'.

Reviewed by

Putseys, Yvan. 1977. Ambiguity in English and Netherlandic universal generics. In Putseys, Yvan, ed. Aspects of English and Netherlandic grammar. Acco. pp. 14–42.