ing away from tense, this example can be formalized by the DRS in figure 2.3. The linear notation for this DRS is man fat push bicycle poss male . Let us consider this DRS in the context of a DRS which informs us about the situational background.

In this paper, we offer a novel analysis of presuppositions, paving particular attention to the interaction between the knowledge resources that are required to interpret them. The analysis has two main features. First, we capture an analogy between presuppositions, anaphora and scope ambiguity (cf. van der Sandt 1992), by utilizing semantic underspecification (c£ Reyle 1993). Second, resolving...

In contrast to typical semantic relations between verbs, such as antonymy, synonymy or hyponymy, presupposition is a lexical relation that is not very well covered in existing lexical resources. It is also understudied in the field of corpus-based methods of learning semantic relations. But presupposition is very important for the quality of automatic semantic and discourse analysis tasks. In t...

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Zoltan Szábó points out (p.c.) that Grice may be reluctant to call this background proposition an implicature because the speaker does not really intend to convey this proposition to the addressee. But there are cases where the speaker may intend the background proposition as part of, or even as the main point of, what is communicated. See example (2) below. 1. Two types of Relevance Implicatur...

religious knowledge is consists of doctrines that could be attain with amethodological cognition and inquiry concerning religious sources. but theprerequisite of this kind of knowledge is some principles that from whichscholarly studies on religion is begin and leads to conclusion. allamehtabatabaei, in his efforts to achieve a regular and accurate cognition ofreligion according to his special ...