A note on presupposition accommodation

The proviso problem arises for theories of presupposition whose projection component fails to derive certain presuppositions that are contributed by their constituent sentences. Mismatch-based satisfaction theories respond to the difficulty by tying the emergence of the proviso problem to presupposi...

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Main Authors: Roni Katzir, Raj Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2013-08-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2838