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Shanon, Benny. 1976. On the two kinds of presuppositions in natural language. Foundations of Language 14 (2) : 247–249.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

logical presupposition | pragmatic presupposition | semantic presupposition

Annotation

S. argues that there are sentences in which the logical and pragmatic presuppositions are not the same, so that not any semantic presupposition is also a pragmatic one.