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Social pathologies, recognition, and forms of life. [PDF]
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Processing Presupposition Triggers
2016The 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
Filippo Domaneschi, Domaneschi Filippo
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Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers
, 2012 Von Heusinger (2007) shows that the definite article's uniqueness presupposition causes problems in a standard account of focus alternatives. He solves this problem by proposing a new lexical entry for the definite article, a solution adopted by Riester and Kamp (2010). This paper shows that the observed behavior is not limited to the definite article,
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‘Presupposition can be a bluff’: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers
Journal of Pragmatics, 2001Abstract 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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Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers and Focus-sensitivity
, 2020 This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic antecedent in the discourse model, whereas presuppositions of triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity are satisfied as entailments of the Common Ground.
Goebel, Alexander
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Choosing to presuppose: strategic uses of presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2022 This PhD project investigates the discourse structuring and managing properties of presupposition triggers. Specifically, the thesis is a theoretical and experimental investigation of what motivates speakers to presuppose as opposed to assert content, and how this decision influences the course of the subsequent discourse.
Lorson, Alexandra
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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
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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
2023İletişimin 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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Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions
Journal of Semantics, 2009I 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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