Remarks on exceptions and vagueness in generics
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This paper addresses two issues involving exceptions and vagueness of generic sentences as discussed in Greenberg (2007) and attempts to provide alternative solutions to a wider range of exception patterns and vagueness. Greenberg argues that the indeterminacy in delimiting exceptions to generics comes from the vagueness of blocking properties in that some blocking properties cannot precisely delimit the domain of quantification. This paper suggests that the vagueness of generic expressions can come from whether the blocking properties are accessible to the speakers or not and also from an unmeasurable nature of the strength of certain blocking properties in their restriction of the domain of quantification. Secondly, Greenberg sets up a constraint that restricts only the domain of individual objects for quantification. This paper proposes that the property of situations or eventualities should further be included in the definition of blocking in order to account for a wider range of generic expressions including indefinite singular (IS) generics and bare plural (BP) generics.
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This paper addresses two issues involving exceptions and vagueness of generic sentences as discussed in Greenberg (2007) and attempts to provide alternative solutions to a wider range of exception patterns and vagueness. Greenberg argues that the indeterminacy in delimiting exceptions to generics comes from the vagueness of blocking properties in that some blocking properties cannot precisely delimit the domain of quantification. This paper suggests that the vagueness of generic expressions can come from whether the blocking properties are accessible to the speakers or not and also from an unmeasurable nature of the strength of certain blocking properties in their restriction of the domain of quantification. Secondly, Greenberg sets up a constraint that restricts only the domain of individual objects for quantification. This paper proposes that the property of situations or eventualities should further be included in the definition of blocking in order to account for a wider range of generic expressions including indefinite singular (IS) generics and bare plural (BP) generics.
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