Open AccessSentenças genericamente quantificadas e expressões de referência a espécies no português brasileiro
Author(s) -
Ana Müller
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cadernos de estudos lingüísticos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-0686
pISSN - 0102-5767
DOI - 10.20396/cel.v39i0.8636942
Subject(s) - denotation (semiotics) , expression (computer science) , scope (computer science) , linguistics , portuguese , operator (biology) , mathematics , brazilian portuguese , arithmetic , pure mathematics , philosophy , computer science , semiotics , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , transcription factor , gene , programming language
This article investigates the expression of genericity in Brazilian Portuguese. Its theoretical background is the analysis of kind referring expressions as proper names of kinds (cf. Carlson 1977a, b, 1982) and of generically quantified sentences as sentences under the scope of a generic dyadic operator (cf. Carlson 1989 and Krifka et al. 1995). Two basic claims are made: (i) the canonic way of expression kind denotation in Brazilian Portuguese is the definite generic and (ii) the generic indefinite and the bare singular are only ‘normal’ indefinite phrases under the scope of a generic operator.