An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew

摘要: In this paper I argue for the existence of an overt syntactic marker genericity in Hebrew nominal predicative sentences, which will be called Pron (following Doron’s (1983) terminology), and discuss implications claim a number topics dealt with current theories genericity. begin background about distribution Pron, make initial connection between section 3 4 examine detail two possible distributions that characterizing generic/nongeneric distinction they create should done terms both quantificational kind referring 5 reject analysis data stage/individual distinction. Finally, compatibility three Syntax-Semantics interface (Diesing (1992), Chierchia (1995) Ramchand (1996)) data.