Abstract
The project will deal with the prosody of sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) expressing genericity. The literature on the subject is extensive, and we are basing the project mainly on Krifka et. al. (1995), Chierchia (1998), Carlson (1972), and specifically for BP on various papers by Müller and Schmitt & Munn (1999). We will work on definite generic DPs, determined indefinite DPs, ba…