Presupposition

Francesca Delogu
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Since Frege (1892), the notion of presupposition has been a central topic in philosophical-linguistic investigation. Presuppositional phenomena in language have played an important role in the development of semantic and pragmatic theories of language and communication during the past decades. Currently, presuppositions are treated primarily in the framework of dynamic semantic theories, that is, theories in which the meaning of a sentence is defined in terms of context change. A number of theories following this tendency converge on the claim that presuppositions are genuine examples of the semantic/pragmatic interface (van der Sandt 1992; Beaver & Zeevat 2004).

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