Think Generic!

Name: Think Generic!
Brand: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
SKU: 9781575862088
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The Meaning and Use of Generic Sentences

Autor: Ariel Cohen

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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 - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

222

EAN

9781575862088

ISBN

1575862085

Enbook ID

04821007

Editura

Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Greutate

312

Dimensiuni

152 x 228 x 14

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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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