Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening
The main goal of this paper is to make sense of conflicting data pertaining to the way quantifier phrases project the presuppositions of their arguments. More specifically, I will try to argue that the facts can be understood within trivalent approaches to presupposition projection, when coupled wit...
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| description | The main goal of this paper is to make sense of conflicting data pertaining to the way quantifier phrases project the presuppositions of their arguments. More specifically, I will try to argue that the facts can be understood within trivalent approaches to presupposition projection, when coupled with two independently needed mechanisms (a) one which strengthens presuppositions (needed to deal with the so called “proviso problem”) and (b) another which incorporates presuppositions into truth conditions at various scope positions (“local accommodation”). A secondary goal is to provide some sketchy remarks on how the trivalent predictions could be derived in a classical bivalent system with the aid of a modified bridge principle – a modification of the principle suggested in Stalnaker (1974) to connect formal presuppositions to pragmatic conditions of language use. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1106242022-10-01T11:53:32Z Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening Fox, Daniel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Fox, Daniel The main goal of this paper is to make sense of conflicting data pertaining to the way quantifier phrases project the presuppositions of their arguments. More specifically, I will try to argue that the facts can be understood within trivalent approaches to presupposition projection, when coupled with two independently needed mechanisms (a) one which strengthens presuppositions (needed to deal with the so called “proviso problem”) and (b) another which incorporates presuppositions into truth conditions at various scope positions (“local accommodation”). A secondary goal is to provide some sketchy remarks on how the trivalent predictions could be derived in a classical bivalent system with the aid of a modified bridge principle – a modification of the principle suggested in Stalnaker (1974) to connect formal presuppositions to pragmatic conditions of language use. 2017-07-11T14:41:20Z 2017-07-11T14:41:20Z 2013 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 9781139519328 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110624 Fox, Danny. “Presupposition Projection from Quantificational Sentences: Trivalence, Local Accommodation, and Presupposition Strengthening.” From Grammar to Meaning. Ed. Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 201–232. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-0755 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519328.011 From Grammar to Meaning Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press MIT web domain |
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| title | Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening |
| title_full | Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening |
| title_fullStr | Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening |
| title_full_unstemmed | Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening |
| title_short | Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening |
| title_sort | presupposition projection from quantificational sentences trivalence local accommodation and presupposition strengthening |
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