Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives
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Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives
This paper considers a set of presupposition triggers including focus, questions, ‘contrastive’ statives, and an ‘affirmation/negation’ construction involving and not, where presuppositions are cancelable. It is proposed that these constructions, rather than having strict semantic presuppositions, have representations involving alternative sets in the sense of alternative semantics of questions...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Semantics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0167-5133,1477-4593
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffp009