Generics in context : generalisation, context and communication

This thesis consists of four chapters and an introduction. The first chapter is concerned with cases of purported genericity which are true despite only a minority of the kind in question satisfying the predicated property and whose predicated property is somehow striking. I argue that such cases ar...

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Main Author: Sterken, Rachel
Other Authors: Glick, Ephraim
Published: University of St Andrews 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.647804