Abstract Generic sentences involving phrasal conjunctions present a prima facie problem for the standard theory of generics according to which they express quasi-universal generalisations about what is characteristic members particular kind. For example, sentence ‘Elephants live in Africa and Asia’ true, even though it uncharacteristic an elephant both Asia. In response this problem, theorists ...

I N T R O D U C T I O N Identification of the appropriate conjuncts of the coordinate conjunctions in a sentence is fundamental to the understanding of the sentence. We use the phrase 'conjunct identification' to refer to the process of identifying the components (words, phrases, clauses) in a sentence that are conjoined by the coordinate conjunctions in it. Consider the following sentence: "Th...