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McCawley, James D. 1979. Presupposition and discourse structure. In Oh, Choon-Kyu and David A. Dinneen, eds. Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. Academic Press. pp. 371–387.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | definite description | discourse organization | presupposition

Annotation

M. shows that the interpretation of definite descriptions is relative to the contextual domain, a structured set established in discourse.