Publications

Publication details [#23816]

Kay, Paul. 1992. The inheritance of presuppositions. Linguistics and Philosophy 15 (4) : 333–380.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | presupposition | presupposition cancellation

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

Presupposition inheritance phenomena require no special explanatory mechanisms, but follow from independently required grammatical and pragmatic (gricean) principles.