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The following essential readings list provides a starting point for study and is not exhaustive.

Carlson, Gregory N., and Francis Jeffry Pelletier, eds. The Generic Book. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226092928.

Katz, Graham, and Roberto Zamparelli. Genericity in Natural Language. Class notes for ESSLLI, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 2005.

Carlson, Gregory N. "No Lack of Determination." Glot International  4, no. 3 (1999): State-of-the-Article.

Carlson, Gregory N. "Reference to Kinds in English." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1977.

Carlson, Gregory N. Reference to Kinds in English . New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1980. ISBN: 9780824045517.

Carlson, Gregory. "A Note on Belladonnas." LSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1996.

Lewis, David. "Adverbs of Quantification." In Formal Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Keenan and Edward. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780521206976.

von Fintel, Kai. "A Minimal Theory of Adverbial Quantification." Unpublished manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

von Fintel, Kai. "How to Count Situations (Notes Towards a User's Manual)." Unpublished manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2005/1997.

Kratzer, Angelika. "Modality." Chapter 23 in Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Edited by Stechow, Arnim, and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin, Germany and New York, NY: de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 639-650.

———. "Conditionals." Chapter 30 in Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Edited by Stechow, Arnim, and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin, Germany and New York, NY: de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 651-656.

Heim, Irene. "The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1982.

Heim, Irene. The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases . New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 9780824051884.

Ferreira, Marcelo. "Bare Habituals and Plural Definite Descriptions ." In Proceedings of SuB9. Edited by Maier, Emar, Corien Bary, and Janneke Huitink, 2005. ISBN: 9090193561.

Rimell, Laura. "Habitual Sentences and Generic Quantification." To appear in WCCFL 23 Proceedings (pre-publication version), 2004.

Menéndez-Benito, Paula. "The Grammar of Choice." Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005.

Chierchia, G. "Reference to Kinds across Languages." Natural Language Semantics 6, no. 4 (1998): 339-405.

Greenberg, Yael. Manifestations of Genericity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415967778.