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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Semantics Année : 2024

Bare singular names and genericity

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Predicativists hold that proper names are count nouns with a predicative meaning, and treat bare singular names as predicative DPs headed by an unpronounced definite. However, bare singular names exhibit differences in grammatical behavior from ordinary definite singulars. One difference, it has been argued, is that while ordinary definite singulars can be interpreted generically, bare singular names cannot. This is not right: bare singular names can have generic uses. I present the evidence and offer an argument that generics with bare singular names are good news for predicativists.

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hal-04791894 , version 1 (19-11-2024)

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Luca Gasparri. Bare singular names and genericity. Journal of Semantics, 2024, ⟨10.1093/jos/ffae017⟩. ⟨hal-04791894⟩
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