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Publication details [#5880]
Lakoff, George. 1971. Presupposition and relative well-formedness. In Steinberg, Danny D. and Leon A. Jakobovits, eds. Semantics: An interdisciplinary reader in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 329–340.
Annotation
L. claims that one cannot talk about the grammaticality, the well- or ill-formedness of sentences, in isolation. Instead sentences, which all carry presuppositions about the nature of the world, can be said to be well-formed only relative to those presuppositions.