I outline a unified treatment of descriptive noun phrases: definite, indefinite, universal noun phrases, quantitative phrases like most Fs, phrases featuring any, and noun phrases in the scope of adverbs of generality, like usually or invariably. The analysis does not utilise quantification theory, but is a speech-act analysis in which surface grammar is reflected in logical form.
Keywords: definite description, designative function, indefinite description, quantification, sentential determination, universal noun phrase, variable interpretation