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In this paper I argue for the existence of an overt syntactic marker for genericity in Hebrew nominal predicative sentences, which will be called Pron (following Doron’s (1983) terminology), and discuss the implications of this claim for a number of topics dealt with in current theories of genericity. I begin with a background about the distribution of Pron, and make the initial claim about the connection between Pron and genericity. In section 3 and 4 I examine in detail two possible distributions of Pron, and claim that characterizing the generic/nongeneric distinction they create should be done in terms of both quantificational and kind referring genericity. In section 5 I reject an analysis of the data in terms of the stage/individual distinction. Finally, I discuss the compatibility of three Syntax-Semantics interface theories (Diesing (1992), Chierchia (1995) and Ramchand (1996)) with the Hebrew data.
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Greenberg, Y. (1998). An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew. In: Rothstein, S. (eds) Events and Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_6
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