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Presupposition triggers and (not-)at-issueness: Insights from language acquisition into the soft-hard distinction

Journal of Pragmatics, 2022
Presuppositions are traditionally understood as a set of backgrounded, and thus not-at-issue, projective inferences that are taken for granted by communicators.
Yuqiu Chen, Maik Thalmann
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Understanding Frege’s notion of presupposition [PDF]

SynthÈse, 2021
Why did Frege offer only proper names as examples of presupposition triggers? Some scholars claim that Frege simply did not care about the full range of presuppositional phenomena. This paper argues, in contrast, that he had good reasons for employing an
Thorsten Sander
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Presupposition and Presupposition Triggers in Turkish

2023
İletişimin devamlılığı için iş birliği içerisinde olmak ne kadar önemliyse konuşurlar arasındaki ortak bağlamın, deneyimlerin ve genel geçer bilgilerin varlığı da bir o kadar önem taşımaktadır. Yazılı ya da sözlü metnin akıcılığı sağlayabilmek ve konuşurlar arasında iletişimi sürdürebilmek için karşılıklı sunulan bilginin varsayılan düzeyde olması ...
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Processing Presupposition Triggers

2016
The aim of this chapter is to investigate the problem of processing different categories of presupposition triggers. As claimed in Chap. 2, if a speaker utters a sentence p containing a presupposition trigger that activates a presupposition q, and q does not belong to the common ground of presuppositions, it is a case of presupposition failure. If this
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‘Presupposition can be a bluff’: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers

Journal of Pragmatics, 2001
Abstract This study is concerned with expressions of the type the thing is that … or the problem was that …, which are seen as constructions in the Construction Grammar sense of the term and referred to as ‘N- be-that -constructions’. The material discussed is derived from the 225-million word British section of COBUILD's Bank of English ...
Hans-Jörg Schmid
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PROPRES: Investigating the Projectivity of Presupposition with Various Triggers and Environments

Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2023
What makes a presupposition of an utterance -- information taken for granted by its speaker -- different from other pragmatic inferences such as an entailment is projectivity (e.g., the negative sentence the boy did not stop shedding tears presupposes the boy had shed tears before).
Daiki Asami, Saku Sugawara
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Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions

Journal of Semantics, 2009
I provide a novel semantic analysis of proper names and indexicals, combining insights from the competing traditions of referentialism, championed by Kripke and Kaplan, and descriptivism, introduced by Frege and Russell, and more recently resurrected by Geurts and Elbourne, among others.
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Presupposition Triggering and Disambiguation

2018
In this essay, we will consider the prospects for recent Gricean theories concerning presupposition triggering. Gricean explanations of presupposition triggering tend to ground triggering in principles concerning the question under discussion or the topic of the sentence.
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Change of State and Factive Nominals and Nominalizations as Presupposition Triggers [PDF]

, 2022
This paper aims to verify that nominal forms corresponding to change of state predicates and factive predicates are presupposition triggers as well as their verbal equivalents. We support this idea by providing data mainly from IMPAQTS, a corpus pragmatically annotated for implicit contents (namely presuppositions, conventional and conversational ...
Cominetti, F, Giunta, G
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Presupposition and Presupposition Triggers in the National Anthem

Sözce oluşturan/konuşan/yazar ve sözceye maruz kalan/dinleyen/okur arasında ortak bilgi birikiminin olması iletişimin sağlığı ve devamlılığı için gereklidir. Bu bilgiler kimi zaman sözce içinde açıkça söylenirken çoğu zaman açıkça söylenmemektedir. Sözce oluşturulurken göndericinin ve alıcının bildiği örtük bilgiye önvarsayım denir.
Söylemez, Yusuf, Kasımoğlu Dönmez, Berrin   +1 more
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