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Generic Sentences and Types of Judgments
Alda Mari1, Fabienne Martin2
(2009-03-20)

This paper investiagtes the correlation between the meaning of the plural indefinite 'des' and the plural definite 'les' in French and their ability to express different types of generic statements. It argues that the main feature that distinguishes these two items is the (non)-novelty, in a Heimian framework.
1:  IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod
2:  SFB732 - SFB732
Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics/Semantics