Presupposition Projection Out of Quantified Sentences: Strengthening, Local Accommodation and Inter-speaker Variation

Presupposition projection in quantified sentences is at the center of debates in the presupposition literature. This paper reports on a survey revealing inter-speaker variation regarding which quantifier yields universal inferences—which Q in Q(B)(λx.C(x) [subscript p(x)]) supports the inference ∀x∈...

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Main Authors: Sudo, Yasutada, Romoli, Jacopo, Hackl, Martin, Fox, Daniel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85650
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-9308
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-0755