Experimenting with subject alternatives for analysing generic sentences

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2020
Host editors
  • M. Franke
  • N. Kompa
  • M. Liu
  • J.L. Mueller
  • J. Schwab
Book title Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783000662485
Event Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24
Volume | Issue number 1
Pages (from-to) 411-428
Publisher Osnabrück: Osnabrück University
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract In this paper we argue that for the (probabilistic) interpretation of generic sentences of the form ‘Gs are f ’ alternative groups, or kinds, of G play an important role. We describe the results of some experiments that empirically test this use of alternatives.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.875
Published at https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mZhNDA4Y/26_kochari_vanrooij_schulz.pdf
Other links https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/27 https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mZhNDA4Y/
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