Generic Comparisons  

Oleh:

Nickel, Bernhard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 27 no. 2 (May 2010), page 207–242.
Topik: Generic Comparisons; comparative generic
Fulltext: vol 27, no 2, p 207-242.pdf (271.38KB)

Isi artikel

This article discusses comparative generic sentences As are F-er than Bs—girls do better than boys in grade school, for example—which pose severe problems for extant accounts. In their stead, the article proposes reconceiving the logical form (LF) of generic sentences as more closely akin to that of sentences containing non-generic plurals, paradigmatically plural definite descriptions. Given this one crucial change, several otherwise puzzling features of comparative generics are immediately explicable, including their relatively weak truth conditions and some of the logical relations they enter into.

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