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Schiebe, Traugott. 1979. On presuppositions in complex sentences. In Oh, Choon-Kyu and David A. Dinneen, eds. Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. Academic Press. pp. 127–154.
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Article in book
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English
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S. addresses the problem of what happens to presuppositions embedded under verbals which take sentential complements. It is suggested that the key to the projection problem lies in the recognition that a given presupposition p is satisfied in the context c in which its associated presuppositional construction occurs, which may differ from that in which the sentence S as a whole occurs. The information conveyed previously to c may affect what is given in c such that S may appear not to presuppose p, or to presuppose something besides p.