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Publication details [#8813]

Shenaut, Greg. 1975. Valves: Plumbing the presuppositional depths (or, What's a plug like you doing in a hole like that?). Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 : 498–513.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

It is shown that there are differences in the degree of contradiction that results from conjoining some sentence and the negation of some presupposition of the sentence. From that it is concluded that the relations 'presupposes' and 'is the negation of' are nondiscrete.