This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as it reveals our capacity to organize our perceived reality into classes and to describe regularities. The generic can be expressed at the level of a word or phrase (ie the potato in The Irish economy became dependent upon the potato) or an entire sentence (eg in John smokes a cigar after dinner, the...

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as it reveals our capacity to organize our perceived reality into classes and to describe regularities. The generic can be expressed at the level of a word or phrase (ie the potato in The Irish economy became dependent upon the potato) or an entire sentence (eg in John smokes a cigar after dinner, the...

L interaction des notions modales et temporelles dans un cadre formel constitue un champ difficile a aborder sans connaissance preliminaire des outils manipulant les mondes possibles. Cet ouvrage comble ce manque, en introduisant, pour la premiere fois en langue francaise, les systemes formels issus de la logique modale et utilises en linguistique. Differents cadres theoriques sont presentes, et notamment l approche Kratzerienne et la theorie du temps branchant. La discussion des theories modales est menee a travers le prisme du langage naturel et la notion, centrale dans cet ouvrage, de sens...