The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages (Hardcover) by Albert Oosterhof
The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages (Hardcover) by Albert Oosterhof
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The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages (Hardcover) by Albert Oosterhof

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  • ISBN: 9789027255051
  • Condition: New
  • Hard cover
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 286
  • Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 286 p. Contains: Illustrations. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122.00.
  • This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the literature on the semantics and pragmatics of generics. The empirical data presented in this book shed new light on issues crucial to the study of genericity. A number of widely accepted ideas are shown to be problematic. For example, arguments are presented against the well-known claim that progressive forms typically exclude characterizing interpretations. Furthermore, the author shows that speakers do not agree in their judgements of the acceptability of bare plurals (as well as other noun phrase types) in generic contexts. Such data are a problem for the influential thesis that bare plurals refer to kinds unambiguously.
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