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Understanding Focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance ...
Lascarides, Alex, Schlöder, Julian J.
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A cross-linguistic view on the obligatory insertion of additive particles — Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
Presupposition triggers, such as the additive particle too, the iterative particle again, and the definite determiner the, are obligatory if their presuppositions are satisfied in the context.
Agata Renans, Nadine Bade
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Triggering Presuppositions

open access: yesGlossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021
While presuppositions are often thought to be lexically encoded, researchers have repeatedly argued for ‘triggering algorithms’ that productively classify certain entailments as presuppositions. We provide new evidence for this position and sketch a novel triggering rule.
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Tarihî metinlerde önvarsayımın görünümü: Kül Tigin yazıtı

open access: yesHitit Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023
Örtük yapının unsurlarından sayılabilecek olan önvarsayım, konuşurun sözcesinde muhatabına ilettiği gizli bilgi parçalarını anlatan bir kavramdır. Önvarsayımlar, konuşurun yüzey yapıda sınırlı birimle gösterdiği ancak derin yapıda karşılığı olan anlamsal
Seçil Hirik
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Focus presuppositions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus ...
Abusch, Dorit
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PRESUPPOSITION IN THE JAKARTA POSTS POLITICAL ARTICLES: A PRAGMATICS APPROACH

open access: yesIndonesian EFL Journal, 2015
This study is aimed to investigate presupposition in The Jakarta Post daily newspapers articles in political column. It covers two problems: types of presupposition and triggers of presupposition. Those problems were identified by applying presupposition
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly, Ayu Putri Kurnia
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Textual Presupposition: An Intertextual Account

open access: yesمجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2020
Whereas there has been ample research on presupposition, and different taxonomies have been put forward on the various types of presupposition, presupposition triggers, on the difference between entailment and presupposition, and on the dichotomy ...
Salah M. Salih
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To accommodate or to ignore?: The presuppositions of again and continue across contexts

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
One central question in presupposition theory concerns the effect of using a presupposition trigger in a context where its presupposition is not supported.
Florian Schwarz   +2 more
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Using Triggers Without Projecting Presuppositions [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 2014
Presuppositions are capable of projecting from under the scope of operators such as negation, but do not obligatorily do so. This creates a potential difficulty for the hearer of presupposition-bearing utterances, especially given the fact that speaker can use presupposition to convey entirely new information.
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PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS IN THE WASHINGTON POST AND LOST ANGELES TIMES ONLINE NEWS

open access: yesLingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2019
The aim of this study is to analyze the use of presupposition triggers in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times online news. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach.
Khairani Ade Guswita, Pratomo Widodo
doaj   +1 more source

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