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Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of 'episodic genericity', existential presuppositions and contextual restrictions of generics.

Manifestations of Genericity offers a unified analysis of minimally contrasting generic sentences with indefinite singular (IS) and bare plural (BP) subjects - as in A bird flies versus Birds fly - within the framework of formal semantics. Beyond the classic distinction between quantificational and kind predication genericity, there is another important distinction in the generic domain, namely the distinction between two types of quantificational, modalized (I-) generalization: in virtue of generalizations, expressed by both IS and BP sentences, and descriptive generalizations, expressed by...