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Publication details [#2710]

Dinsmore, John. 1981. The inheritance of presupposition. John Benjamins. 96 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

presupposition | projection problem

Annotation

D. presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presuppositions. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way.