WHAT IS PRESUPPOSITION ACCOMMODATION, AGAIN?*

What is Presupposition Accommodation , Again ? ∗

Presupposition Accommodation in Update Semantics

The study of presuppositions lies on the border of semantics and pragmatics. It concerns information, assumed to be part of the discourse context by the speaker, as apparent in the syntactic form of the utterance. Missing presupposed information will normally be lled in by the hearer, provided it is compatible with the context. My thesis tries to characterise this process of presupposition acco...

A note on presupposition accommodation

The proviso problem arises for theories of presupposition whose projection component fails to derive certain presuppositions that are contributed by their constituent sentences. Mismatch-based satisfaction theories respond to the difficulty by tying the emergence of the proviso problem to presupposition accommodation. Consequently, when the context entails the projected presupposition and no ac...

Presupposition Accommodation as Exception Handling

Van der Sandt’s algorithm for handling presupposition is based on a “presupposition as anaphora” paradigm and is expressed in the realm of Kamp’s DRT. In recent years, we have proposed a typetheoretic rebuilding of DRT that allows Montague’s semantics to be combined with discourse dynamics. Here we explore van der Sandt’s theory along the line of this formal framework. It then results that pres...

Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse-Initial Too

Sentences with a Japanese focus marker mo “also/too” can be uttered out of the blue without sounding erratic. Instead of contrastive narrow focus, mo-sentences have presentational neutral focus. I will analyze discourse-initial mo as a speakeroriented emphatic marker, similar to indeed or unfortunately. By association with a whole proposition, mo triggers unspecified presuppositions that provid...