I present a new observation with regard to the felicity of using even: There is no apparent focus/QUD congruence for even-sentences. For example, Even Mary came cannot be used answer question like who or was unlikely come. Instead, felicitous use address issues how successful exhibition was, enthusiastic people were, urgent matter etc. Thus propose that even QUD-sensitive, always contextually s...

I propose a new theory of scalar implicatures: the speaker should be in the same epistemic status with respect to alternatives obtained via similar transformations (e.g., replacements of a scalar items with various stronger items). This theory extends naturally to explain presupposition projection. Cases where scalar items and presupposition triggers co-occur are also accounted for. The main fo...

The paper on cascading chromosomal speciation and hybrid sinks which follows this preface was written in 1977. It faced surprising and initially incomprehensible difficulties in reviews. The epistemology and heuristic organization of the "comparative approach'' used was incommensurable with the reviewers' Kuhnian paradigms. To provide a "key" for translating from the comparative heuristic, the ...

Three components of determiner meanings – truth conditions, implicatures, and presuppositions – have been identified. One of the major findings in acquisition, related to the truth conditions of the quantifiers, has been that children go through at least two stages of non-adult interpretation of the quantifier every (Philip, 1995). More recently, researchers (Noveck, 2001; Gualmini et al., 2001...

1 Current Issues in Presupposition Theory 2 1.1 Basic Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Semantics vs. Pragmatics and Explanatory Challenges . . . . . . 5 1.2.1 The Triggering Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2.2 The Projection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Distinguishing Types of Presupposition Triggers . . . . . . . . . 11