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Interrogative particles in polar questions: the view from Finnish and Turkish
Glossa, 2023 The strategy used for forming polar questions varies across languages. While in some languages, polar questions are formed using a raising intonation, in others, polar questions are formed using an interrogative particle.
Aurore Gonzalez
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Glossa, 2021 Fox (2000) argues that a single principle, Rule H, can account for (i) Strong Crossover, (ii) the ban on using co-binding to sneak around Condition B, and (iii) the Dahl paradigm. The focus of this paper is Fox’s analysis of the Dahl paradigm.
Alex Drummond
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Glossa, 2021 While presuppositions are often thought to be lexically encoded, researchers have repeatedly argued for ‘triggering algorithms’ that productively classify certain entailments as presuppositions.
Philippe Schlenker
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, 2008 This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus ...
Abusch, Dorit
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Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures
Glossa, 2018 We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information (i.e., are nontrivial).
Christina Zlogar, Kathryn Davidson
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The paper shows that implicit strategies for questionable contents are frequent in persuasive texts, as compared to texts with other purposes. It proposes that the persuasive and manipulative effectiveness of introducing questionable contents implicitly ...
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
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To accommodate or to ignore?: The presuppositions of again and continue across contexts
Glossa, 2018 One central question in presupposition theory concerns the effect of using a presupposition trigger in a context where its presupposition is not supported.
Florian Schwarz +2 more
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Presupposition and negation † [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 1988 Abstract Ever since Strawson proposed (1950, 1952, 1954) to regard the negation operator in natural language as presupposition-preserving, there has been unclarity, in most of the literature, about the logical consequences of such a proposal.
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Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges [PDF]
, 2000 About the book: The First International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, Rio de Janeiro, January 1997, gave rise to the present book, which contains a selection of the papers presented there, thoroughly refereed and ...
Bonzon, P. +4 more
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Presupposition projection as proof construction [PDF]
, 1999 Even though Van der Sandt's presuppositions as anaphora approach is empirically successful, it fails to give a formal account of the interaction between world-knowledge and presuppositions.
A Ranta +26 more
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