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The inheritance of presupposition
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ISBN: 1283359731 9786613359735 9027280843 9789027280848 9027225117 9789027225115 9027225117 9789027225115 Year: 1981 Volume: II:1 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins,

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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.


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Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics
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ISBN: 0521099382 0521207339 9780521207331 Year: 1975 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge New-York : Cambridge university press,

Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics
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ISBN: 9780230210752 0230210759 9780230005334 1349282065 0230005330 9786611283636 1281283630 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, this volume investigates three mental mechanisms that are widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. For all three mechanisms, formal models have been advanced recently that are accurate for many cases. There is some consensus in the field, however, that further progress requires stronger interconnections between these results. This collection brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics who push this agenda forward. From this perspective, the contributors develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, individual level predicates, free choice effects, presupposition accommodation, exhaustivity effects, specificity. With contributions by many leading researchers in the field, this book will be a useful source for both researchers and students interested in sentence interpretation and language use.

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