<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Philosophy of Language Research group:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Thursday, 30 January 2020, 13.15 –14.45h in Room 3A (3rd floor NIG, Universitätsstr 7), </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Mark Bowker (University College Dublin) </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">will give a talk on:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Sterken on Generics</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Abstract: Rachel Sterken argues that generics are context-sensitive and that their context-sensitivity should be given a distinctive semantic explanation, leading her to posit an unpronounced indexical quantifier. I argue that Sterken fails to show that the context-sensitivity is semantic and present an alternative: that context-sensitivity arises from pragmatic completion of an incomplete logical form.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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