Asymmetries in Presupposition Projection: Processing and Acquisition

In this dissertation, I aim to provide novel evidence to shed light on the projection problem of presuppositions. The focus is on identifying the underlying patterns of how presuppositions project out of two binary connectives, if and or, by disentangling semantic presuppositions from additional pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Sherry Yong
Other Authors: Aravind, Athulya
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147224