Presupposition Projection : Two Theories of Local Contexts
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The Explanatory Problem discussed in Part I is conceptually simple: dynamic semantics is strictly more powerful than classical semantics; this made it possible for Heim’s system to handle presuppositional data that classical semantics did not; but the very power of the framework also makes it possible to define all sorts of lexical entries which presumably do not exist in the world’s languages. We will now circumvent the problem by defining something very close to Heim’s ‘local contexts’, but on the basis of a purely classical (bivalent and non-dynamic) semantics. Specifically, we will define a general rule to compute local contexts in great generality once the syntax and classical semantics of a sentence have been specified – a rule that does without the detour of dynamic semantics.
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