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The following essential readings list provides a starting point for study and is not exhaustive.



Some Overview Readings


Amazon logo Carlson, Gregory N., and Francis Jeffry Pelletier, eds. The Generic Book. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226092928.

Katz, Graham, and Roberto Zamparelli. Genericity in Natural Language. Class notes for ESSLLI, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 2005.

Carlson, Gregory N. "No Lack of Determination." Glot International  4, no. 3 (1999): State-of-the-Article.



Carlson 1977: Bare Plurals as Names for Kinds


Carlson, Gregory N. "Reference to Kinds in English." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1977.

Amazon logo Carlson, Gregory N. Reference to Kinds in English . New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1980. ISBN: 9780824045517.

Carlson, Gregory. "A Note on Belladonnas." LSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1996.



The Quantificational Analysis




Background on Adverbs of Quantification


Amazon logo Lewis, David. "Adverbs of Quantification." In Formal Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Keenan and Edward. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780521206976.

von Fintel, Kai. "A Minimal Theory of Adverbial Quantification." Unpublished manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1995.



Counting Situations


von Fintel, Kai. "How to Count Situations (Notes Towards a User's Manual)." Unpublished manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2005/1997.



Background on Modality


Kratzer, Angelika. "Modality." Chapter 23 in Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Edited by Stechow, Arnim, and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin, Germany and New York, NY: de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 639-650.

———. "Conditionals." Chapter 30 in Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Edited by Stechow, Arnim, and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin, Germany and New York, NY: de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 651-656.



Heim 1992


Heim, Irene. "The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1982.

Amazon logo Heim, Irene. The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases . New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 9780824051884.



Habituals and Dispositionals


Ferreira, Marcelo. "Bare Habituals and Plural Definite Descriptions ." In Proceedings of SuB9. Edited by Maier, Emar, Corien Bary, and Janneke Huitink, 2005. ISBN: 9090193561.

Rimell, Laura. "Habitual Sentences and Generic Quantification." To appear in WCCFL 23 Proceedings (pre-publication version), 2004.

Menéndez-Benito, Paula. "The Grammar of Choice." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005.



Additional Readings


Chierchia, G. "Reference to Kinds across Languages." Natural Language Semantics 6, no. 4 (1998): 339-405.

Amazon logo Greenberg, Yael. Manifestations of Genericity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415967778.

 


 








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