This paper investigates the semantics of kind-referring expressions and of generic quantification in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). It may thus be taken as a contribution to the development of a more accurate understanding of genericity as a crosslinguistic phenomenon. In BP genericity may be expressed by both definite singular (1) and definite plural (2) nominals, and also by indefinite nominals s...

In this paper, we explore how aspect-oriented programming can be implemented for the PHP programming language. We start with an overview of existing implementations, identifying their strengths and weaknesses. We then introduce GAP, our implementation of aspect-oriented programming for PHP that uses dynamic weaving, supports aspect genericity, and provides a framework to implement custom pointc...