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Publication details [#7641]

Platteau, Frank. 1979. Presupposition destruction in negative sentences. In Velde, Marc Van de and Willy Vandeweghe, eds. Bedeutung, Sprechakte und Texte: Akten des 13. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Gent 1978, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 75–84.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

entailment | implicature | negation | presupposition cancellation

Annotation

Plea for a pragmatic approach to the problem of the cancellation of presuppositions. It is shown that also implicatures and entailments can be cancelled.