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Bickerton, Derek. 1975. Two levels of logical presupposition. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 : 48–59.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

B. argues that distinguishing two levels of logical presupposition, viz. existential presupposition (i.e. the presupposition of the existence of a person or object, as in 'John called') and sentential presupposition (i.e. the presupposition of the occurrence of an action or event, as in 'Fred's driving annoys Mary'), yields insights into linguistic phenomena like pronominalization, determiners and quantifiers.