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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes


I. Preliminaries (PDF)

II. Carlson 1977: Bare Plurals as Names for Kinds

  • Reference to kinds in English (PDF)
  • Reference to kinds in English: Part 2 (PDF)
  • Challenges/problems for Carlson 1977 (PDF)
  • Challenges/problems for Carlson 1977: Part 2 (PDF)

III. The quantificational analysis

  • Bare plurals as indefinites: Part 1 (PDF), Part 2 (PDF)


Background on modality


  • Introduction to modality (PDF)

IV. Habituals and dispositionals

  • Dispositional sentences (PDF)

 








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