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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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0. Introduction | p. 1
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1. The structure of given information | p. 11
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1.1 Worlds
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1.2 Truth in a world
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1.3 Given information
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1.4 Linguistic Processing
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1.5 The dynamics of given information
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2. Presupposition | p. 41
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2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition
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2.2 Sentential presupposition
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3. The presupposition of Complex sentences | p. 49
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3.1 Simple sentences and holes
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3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions
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3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering
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3.4 Complex cases of filtering
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3.5 Plugs
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3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents
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4. A performance theory of presupposition | p. 69
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4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features
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4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures
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4.3 Normal assumptions about the way in which presuppositions are satisfied
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4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions
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5. Conclusions | p. 91
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Index of abbreviations | p. 97
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