Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1: Genericity: An Introduction Manfred Krifka, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Gregory N. Carlson, Alice ter Meulen, Gennaro Chierchia, Godehard Link. 2: Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates Angelika Kratzer 3: Individual-Level Predicates as Inherent Generics Gennaro Chierchia 4: Truth Conditions of Generic Sentences: Two Contrasting Views Gregory N. Carlson 5: Focus and the Interpretation of Generic Sentences Manfred Krifka 6: Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification, and Focus Semantics Mats Rooth 7: What Some Generic Sentences Mean Nicholas Asher, Michael Morreau. 8: Semantic Constraints on Type-Shifting Anaphora Alice ter Meulen 9: Generic Information and Dependent Generics Godehard Link 10: The Semantics of the Common Noun Kind Karina Wilkinson 11: Common Nouns: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Manfred Krifka 12: The Marking of the Episodic/Generic Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems Osten Dahl Bibliography of Recent Work on Genericity Name Index Language Index Subject Index

About the Author

Gregory N. Carlson is professor of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science at the University of Rochester. Francis Jeffry Pelletier is Canada Research Chair in cognitive science, professor of philosophy, and professor of linguistics at Simon Fraser University.