Hana Filip and Greg
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There are various opinions about how the phenomenon of sentential genericity (Carlson and Pelletier, 1995) is related to other classes of expressions of natural language. The notion of 'genericity' is most commonly viewed as having close ties to tense, mood and aspect (cf. Dahl, 1985; Comrie, 1985). For instance, philosophers and occasionally linguists (e.g. Dahl, 1975, 1985, and 1995) make use of the term 'generic tense', thereby implying that genericity is a member of the tense system of a language. Less commonly, genericity is thought to reside among the system of modals. (There also have been other proposals, for instance, Farkas and Sugioka (1983) situate genericity in the system of frequency adverbs.) However, the most widespread claim is that genericity is a part of the aspectual system of natural language (cf. Comrie, 1976:26ff., 1985:40). The very proliferation of existing claims indicates that genericity is at best an uncertainly classifiable phenomenon. In this paper, however, we argue that sentential genericity is a category in its own right, rather than just a member of some other category system. The main focus of this paper is the delimitation of genericity from aspect.
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