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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
exaly   +2 more sources

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

Journal of Pragmatics, 2022
Yuqiu Chen, Maik Thalmann
exaly  

Choosing to presuppose: strategic uses of presupposition triggers

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.
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Obligatory Presupposition Triggers in Discourse - Empirical Investigations of the Theories 'Maximize Presupposition' and 'Obligatory Implicatures'

2016
Die Dissertation untersucht zwei Theorien zum obligatorischen Einsetzen von Präsuppositionsauslösern. Die erste Theorie basiert auf einem Prinzip 'Maximize Presupposition', die zweite Theorie auf obligatorischen Implikaturen. Zuerst werden die beiden Theorien theoretisch gegenübergestellt und in Hinblick auf ihre Vorhersagen verglichen. Die empirischen
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