The inheritance of presupposition
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The inheritance of presupposition
（Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, II,
J. Benjamins, 1981
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This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in every case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the 'projection problem' upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate account than any previously proposed.
Table of Contents
- 1. 0. Introduction
- 2. 1. The structure of given information
- 3. 1.1 Worlds
- 4. 1.2 Truth in a world
- 5. 1.3 Given information
- 6. 1.4 Linguistic Processing
- 7. 1.5 The dynamics of given information
- 8. 2. Presupposition
- 9. 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition
- 10. 2.2 Sentential presupposition
- 11. 3. The presupposition of Complex sentences
- 12. 3.1 Simple sentences and holes
- 13. 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions
- 14. 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering
- 15. 3.4 Complex cases of filtering
- 16. 3.5 Plugs
- 17. 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents
- 18. 4. A performance theory of presupposition
- 19. 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features
- 20. 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures
- 21. 4.3 Normal assumptions about the way in which presuppositions are satisfied
- 22. 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions
- 23. 5. Conclusions
- 24. References
- 25. Index of abbreviations
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