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Wilson, Deirdre and Dan Sperber. 1979. Ordered entailments: An alternative to presuppositional theories. In Oh, Choon-Kyu and David A. Dinneen, eds. Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. Academic Press. pp. 299–324.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

W. and S. suggest that the behavior of presuppositions under negation and questioning can be accounted for by assuming a truth functional semantics without truth value gaps, if we allow semantic interpretation to be sensitive to relevance, and assume that relevance is marked syntactically and phonologically. Presupposed information is that which is marked as less relevant.