TY - JOUR AU - Ferreira, Marcelo PY - 2019/08/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bare Habituals and Plural Definite Descriptions JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 9 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.721 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/721 SP - 102-115 AB - <p>This paper investigates semantic and pragmatic differences between habitual sentences with adverbs of quantification and habitual sentences without adverbs of quantification, which I will call <em>bare habituals</em>. I will argue for the idea that bare habituals involve plural definite descriptions of events/situations, whereas habituals with adverbs of quantification involve quantification over singular events/situations.</p> ER -