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Kempson, Ruth M. 1979. Presupposition, opacity, and ambiguity. In Oh, Choon-Kyu and David A. Dinneen, eds. Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. Academic Press. pp. 283–298.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | negation | noun phrase | opacity | presupposition

Annotation

K. argues that there is no reason to assume that negation is ambiguous between an internal and an external reading, nor that noun phrases in modal environments are associated with an ambiguity between opaque and transparent readings.