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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="C88-2106"> <Title>Referential Properties of Generic Terms Denoting Things and Situations</Title> <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="concl"> <SectionTitle> 9. Conclusion </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> Our investigation can be looked upon as a proof of the thesis that for typical generic noun phrases a logico-semantic interpretation can be given which strictly corresponds to their surface structure (in article-lacking languages): generic terms can be treated as referentially incomplete phrases, with qu~ntification expressed outside the phrase itself or not expressed at all.</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>