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The Inheritance of Presupposition
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This work presents a procedural account of the so-called ‘projection problem’ for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in every case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the ‘projection problem’ upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate account than any previously proposed.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:1] 1981. vi, 98 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–vi
- 0. Introduction | pp. 1–10
- 1. The structure of given information | pp. 11–40
- 1.1 Worlds
- 1.2 Truth in a world
- 1.3 Given information
- 1.4 Linguistic Processing
- 1.5 The dynamics of given information
- 2. Presupposition | pp. 41–48
- 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition
- 2.2 Sentential presupposition
- 3. The presupposition of Complex sentences | pp. 49–68
- 3.1 Simple sentences and holes
- 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions
- 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering
- 3.4 Complex cases of filtering
- 3.5 Plugs
- 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents
- 4. A performance theory of presupposition | pp. 69–90
- 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features
- 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures
- 4.3 Normal assumptions about the way in which presuppositions are satisfied
- 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions
- 5. Conclusions | pp. 91–92
- | pp. 93–96
- Index of abbreviations | p. 97
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