Lecture Notes
I. Preliminaries (PDF)
II. Carlson 1977: Bare Plurals as Names for Kinds
- Reference to kinds in English (PDF)
- Reference to kinds in English: Part 2 (PDF)
- Challenges/problems for Carlson 1977 (PDF)
- Challenges/problems for Carlson 1977: Part 2 (PDF)
III. The quantificational analysis
- Bare plurals as indefinites: Part 1 (PDF), Part 2 (PDF)
Background on modality
- Introduction to modality (PDF)
IV. Habituals and dispositionals
- Dispositional sentences (PDF)