I. Preliminaries (PDF)
II. Carlson 1977: Bare Plurals as Names for Kinds
III. The quantificational analysis
Background on modality
- Introduction to modality (PDF)
IV. Habituals and dispositionals
- Dispositional sentences (PDF)
This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
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