(c)overt Modality in Generic Sentences
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On the assumption that ISs involve a silent generic quantifier GEN, which is taken to be a modal operator, it has been argued (Krifka et al. 1995) that GEN can have different interpretations, corresponding to those of overt modalities in ISs sentences. In this view, (2-a) would be interpreted as in (2b), and the silent operator GEN in (2-a) would have the deontic flavor of the overt modal must in (2-b). One of the aims of this paper is to show that GEN is not the silent counterpart of overt modality.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012