What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?
Introduction Presupposition accommodation is the process by which the context is adjusted quietly and without fuss to accept the utterance of a sentence that imposes certain requirements on the context in which it is processed. In this paper, I explore some questions about accommodation that are...
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Blackwell Publishing
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66138 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7912-4246 |
| Summary: | Introduction
Presupposition accommodation is the process by which the context is adjusted
quietly and without fuss to accept the utterance of a sentence that
imposes certain requirements on the context in which it is processed.
In this paper, I explore some questions about accommodation that are still
often asked. There are complaints that the putative process involves mysterious
magic and that it is posited only to save a superfluous or wrong theory of
presupposition. I argue that these complaints are mistaken: accommodation
is not magic and is needed.
The paper has two parts: 1. Sections 1–4 explain the common ground
theory of presupposition and defend the need for and the propriety of
accommodation. 2. Sections 5–7 address some further questions about
accommodation and are somewhat more speculative. |
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