 Much of the work on the semantics of generics has been focused on characterizing generics, since they have proved the most elusive. It is widely accepted that sentences like “dinosaurs are extinct”, “the dodo is extinct”, and “tigers are widespread” are singular statements that predicate properties directly of kinds. For example, “tigers are extinct” predicates the property of being extinct directly of the kind Panthera tigris, and would be true just in case Panthera tigris had the property of being extinct (Krifka et al. 1995). The semantics of characterizing generics have proved much less tractable.