![]() ![]() quantifiers (Roberts, 1995 Gawron, 1995 Abusch and.cleft sentences (Delin, 1995 Prince, 1986). ![]() sortally restricted predicates of various categories (e.g.,.The dude released this video before he went on a killing spree. aspectual verbs (“stop, continue”) (Simons,.→ Berlusconi is signing the end of Berlusconism. Lexical classes and constructions are widely agreed to beīerlusconi knows that he is signing the end of Berlusconism. In which the behavior of presuppositions differs sharply from otherĪs regards the ubiquity of presuppositions, at least the following Hundreds of other articles and book chapters elsewhere? First, Their own entries in handbooks and encyclopedias, as well as many Presuppositions are just a part of the conventional meaning of someĮxpressions, what makes them sufficiently distinctive that they merit What makes presuppositions special? That is, to the extent that Normally seen precisely as a constraint on the utterance context. Presupposition, although typically regarded as conventional, is ![]() Trigger, the interpretation very much depends on the context, and the “this” may be viewed as a conventional presupposition Necessarily to imply that the presuppositions they trigger don’tĭepend on the context in any way. It is important to note that to call presuppositional expressions May depend also on the attitudes of the speaker who utters it. Notion of utterance presupposition, thus involving a specificįorm that is uttered, but allowing that what is actually presupposed A halfway house, suggestedįor example by Karttunen (1973) and Soames (1982), is to define a Later, some theorists regard it as an open question whether there areĪny purely conventional presuppositions. Pragmatic presupposition is of theoretical import: as we will see The terminological distinction between semantic and With specific triggers are said to be conventional or Or, following Stalnaker (1972 1974), speaker presupposition (or writer) has to say, is a conversational presupposition Presupposition that the addressee is interested in what the speaker Presupposition that the addressee speaks English, like the In contrast, some of the presuppositions above have nothing to do with Is a presupposition trigger requiring a salient future or hypothetical Requiring existence of multiple individuals, and “would” Salient to refer to, the bare plural is a presupposition trigger “this” is a presupposition trigger requiring something “as”, which has a similar meaning to temporal "while", Requirement built into the meaning of the temporal preposition Is a requirement associated with our use of “as”. The existence of a time when we wrote the article Note that some of these presuppositions arise by default from specific There would be at least two readers, for otherwise the bare plural That readers would be able to identify the reference of (1) As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would understandįurther, we presupposed that the sentence was jointly authored, for The fronted phrase “as we wrote this” would not have Repeated in (1), that there was a time when we wrote it, for otherwise We also presupposed as we wrote the last sentence, As we wrote this, we presupposed that readers would Presuppositions and attitudes and variability in the behavior ofġ Characterizing Presupposition 1.1 Introduction Presupposition is (known to be) false the interaction between Speaker’s presuppositions presupposition failure, which occurs when a Which occurs when a hearer’s knowledge state is adjusted to meet the Finally we discuss some of the mainĬurrent issues in presupposition theory. The last 50 years, separated into three classes: Frege-Strawsonĭerived semantic models, pragmatic models such as that offered by The reader is then introduced to major models of presupposition from Triggers, the basic properties of presuppositions such as projectionĪnd cancellability, and the diagnostic tests used to identify them. “presupposition triggers”, forming a large class includingĭefinites and factive verbs. Linguistically information as being taken for granted, rather thanīeing part of the main propositional content of a speech act.Įxpressions and constructions carrying presuppositions are called We discuss presupposition, the phenomenon whereby speakers mark ![]()
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