Truth by Rumfitt, I

“…This explanation differs from others in taking a statement’s having a content (i.e. its saying that things are thus-and-so) to be a presupposition of an attribution of truth to it. This paper shows how this feature opens the way to a distinctive solution to the Liar Paradox and to a foundation for the axiomatic theories of truth now favoured by many logicians.…”

Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan by Paoli, S, Bach, X

“…The data suggest that while the minimizer pas possibly started off as a marker of emphatic negation, becoming also a negator of discourse-old propositions, the generalizer ges followed the inverse path, starting as a negator of a presupposition and gradually moving to be an emphatic negator. …”

Pragmatics by Paoli, S, Visconti, J

“…This chapter focuses on central pragmatic topics such as politeness, mitigation, presuppositions and discourse markers. Data from Italian have had a central role in enhancing our understanding of these areas of pragmatics and the adoption of a pragmatic perspective highlights the role played by contextual factors, both discursive and interactional, in shaping structures and diachronic phenomena in Italian.…”