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Nunberg, Geoffrey D. and Chiahua Pan. 1975. Inferring quantification in generic sentences. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 : 412–422.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
article | context | generic utterance | inference | quantification | semantic representation

Annotation

N. and P. show that the notion 'generic' does not have to be taken up in semantic representation, because the generic use of articles can be contextually inferred on the basis of the same properties that account for the non-generic uses.