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Langendoen, D. Terence. 1971. Presupposition and assertion in the semantic analysis of nouns and verbs in English. In Steinberg, Danny D. and Leon A. Jakobovits, eds. Semantics: An interdisciplinary reader in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 341–344.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

noun | presupposition | proposition | verb

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

It is argued that the distinction between presupposition and assertion, which is appropriate for the semantic analysis of verbs, is inappropriate for the analysis of nouns.