Studies in the semantics of generic noun phrases
Generic noun phrases are noun phrases that have been said to pick out a class of individuals or a species. Syntactically, they can be definite or indefinite, singular or plural. My dissertation is concerned with the representation of generic NPs. One topic I discuss is the semantics of bare plurals....
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1991
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9120954 |