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Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011 The central idea behind this paper is that presuppositions of soft triggers arise from the way our attention structures the informational content of a sentence. Some aspects of the information conveyed are such that we pay attention to them by default, even in the absence of contextual information.
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Explaining Presupposition Triggers
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 1999 The paper proposes three revisions to the standard views of presupposition: the employment of optimality theory for the defaults and preferences, the admission of weak antecedents for presupposition resolution/satisfaction and fine-grained classification of presupposition triggers, based on the availability of expression alternatives and the logical ...
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Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities, 2022 This research was conducted with attention to the examination of presuppositions in the journal articles published by non-native English writers’ case study Kurdish researchers. The study mainly intends to highlight the presupposition triggers, the nature of presupposition, and recognition of presupposition triggers in a particular presupposition in ...
Dilovan sayfuddin Ghafoory +1 more
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Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2011 VonHeusinger (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).
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The Presuppositions of Soft Triggers are Obligatory Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2014 Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups, ‘soft’ and ‘hard,’ based on whether the presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible and whether they project uniformly in quantificational sentences (Abusch 2002, 2010, Charlow 2009). Recently, two ideas have been put forward in the literature in connection to this problem.
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Accommodation: a cognitive heuristic for background information
Anglophonia, 2018 Presuppositions are usually defined as a linguistic means to convey background information, which require very little cognitive effort to be interpreted (Sperber & Wilson [1986] 1995: 706).
Misha-Laura Müller
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The Subjunctive Mood in Giryama and Tanzanian Nyanja
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper presents a study of the Subjunctive in the Bantu languages of Giryama in Kenya (E72a) and Nyanja in Tanzania (N201), and explores its distribution in the two languages.
Nancy Jumwa Ngowa, Deo S. Ngonyani
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Presupposition Triggers in Editorials of the Jakarta Post
LINGUISTIK TERAPAN, 2016 The objectives of the study were to find out: (1) the realization of presupposition triggers in editorials of The Jakarta Post (2) the reasons for using presupposition triggers. The study was descriptive qualitative. The source of data was The Jakarta Post online website.
Fitriani, Eka Surya, Murni, Sri Minda
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Triggering verbal presuppositions
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2010 This paper offers a predictive mechanism to derive the presuppositions of verbs. The starting point is the intuition, dating back at least to Stalnaker (1974), that the information conveyed by a sentence that is in some sense independent from its main point is presupposed.
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تحلیل لمطلقات الافتراض المسبق في نصوص صحفیة انكلیزیة
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 The notion of presupposition and its triggers have been studied by many scholars, linguists and philosophers, but as far as the researcher knows, the investigation of presupposition triggers in journalistic texts has not been explored yet.
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