Year: 1995
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This essay investigates the interaction of generic quantification with the interpretations of nominals and predicates in Navajo and in English. For the first time, evidence is presented of a distinction between individual- and stage-level predicates in Navajo. Kratzer’s (1988) Prohibition against Vacuous Quantification and de Hoop and de Swart’s (1989) Plurality Condition on adverbs of quantification are two leading explanations of the well-formedness of generics. Data considered here require contextual information to be added to the restrictions of quantifiers and they require the Plurality Condition to be extended to the nuclear scope in addition to the restriction of a quantifier.
Author: Theodore B Fernald
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2964972162