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Semantics of DP islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Simonenko, Alexandra
core  

Bariatric surgery decision-making of adults with obesity: a grounded theory study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Xu Y   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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‘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 ...
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