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Think Generic!

The Meaning and Use of Generic Sentences

Autor: Ariel Cohen
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
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368.25 lei
Our knowledge about the world is often expressed by generic sentences, yet their meanings are far fr...

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Autor
Ariel Cohen
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1999
Pagini
222
EAN
9781575862071
ISBN
1575862077
Enbook ID
04821006
Editura
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Greutate
425
Dimensiuni
152 x 228 x 20

Descriere completă

Our knowledge about the world is often expressed by generic sentences, yet their meanings are far from clear. This book provides answers to central problems concerning generics: what do they mean? Which factors affect their interpretation? How can one reason with generics? Cohen proposes that the meanings of generics are probability judgments, and shows how this view accounts for many of their puzzling properties, including lawlikeness. Generics are evaluated with respect to alternatives. Cohen argues that alternatives are induced by the kind as well as by the predicated property, and thus provides a uniform account of the varied interpretations of generics. He studies the formal properties of alternatives and provides a compositional account of their derivation by focus and presupposition. Cohen uses his semantics of generics to provide a formal characterization of adequate default reasoning, and proves some desirable results of this formalism.

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