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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"presupposition"”.
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Deletion, deaccenting, and presupposition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Neg-raising : polarity and presupposition
In this thesis, I advance a semantic theory of Neg-Raising rooted in the work of Bartsch (1973) and Heim (2000) and defend it against syntactic and pragmatic alternatives. The primary source of support for my position on Neg-Raising comes from the natural way in which the approach explains a …
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Counterfactives: A Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition
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Some aspects of presupposition in generative grammar.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Asymmetries in Presupposition Projection: Processing and Acquisition
… to shed light on the projection problem of presuppositions. The focus is on identifying the underlying patterns of how presuppositions project out of two binary connectives, if and or, by disentangling semantic presuppositions from additional processes. A series of behavioral experiments …
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A critical examination of Frege's theory of presupposition and contemporary alternatives.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Philosophy.
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Presupposition, (Idealogical) Knowledge Management and Gender : A Socio-cognitive Discourse Analytical Approach.
… and in particular cognitive approaches to presupposition, as a suitable theoretical basis for critical discourse analysis, and explores empirically a sample of texts in order to examine knowledge management in relation to gender, sexuality and sexual health in Greek lifestyle magazines. I …
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Impredicativity and turn of the century foundations of mathematics : presupposition in Poincare and Russell
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.
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Presuppositions in context
This dissertation is about the acquisition of presupposition. The specific focus is on the interplay between presuppositional content as hardwired in the semantics of particular expressions and the conversational contexts in which utterances containing those expressions may be used. A series of …
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Presuppositions in focus
This dissertation explores how presuppositions and focus interact. It takes as its starting point a puzzle about expressions like even and its cross linguistic kin in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions: these focus-sensitive scalar additive operators can be used in negative …
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Already : just scalarity
… has been robustly argued to have an additive presupposition in the same vein as particles like too. However, I argue that a dual semantics for already, as all previous accounts attempt to implement, is untenable, motivated by asymmetries between the two particles. Instead, I propose that …
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The Syntax of givenness
… I introduce a recursive operator that adds a presupposition to given elements. The distribution of the operator is regulated by the Maximize presupposition maxim of Heim (1991). The reference set for purposes of this evaluation is defined as the set of derivations that have the same numeration …
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On the semantics of phi features on pronouns
… Heim & Kratzer 1998), I claim that they are presupposition triggers. Based on this assumption, I show that predicates containing bound gendered pronouns have an assertive meaning that does not entail the gender presupposition, and further point out that such predicates pose a serious …
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Eventuality-based interval semantics and Free Logic: what if there, like, is no future, man?
… One possible answer to the problem involves presupposition—namely, that propositions lack truth-value when other propositions that they presuppose are false. This paper explores the plausibility of such an answer, beginning with a brief discussion of the problem of future contingent …
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Modularity and locality in interpretation
… theory of linguistic interpretation, (2) That presupposition accommodation is made with respect to a set of grammatically defined candidates, (3) That the set of accommodation candidates is derived from the same linguistic objects that are used to derive candidates for implicature (the scalar …
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
… field of critical whiteness studies relies on a presupposition that whiteness is a way to categorize a group of people as absolutely different from another. This is a flawed presupposition, as it creates an ontology of absolute difference (defined as a mode of being rooted in qualities of …
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Why even ask? : on the pragmatics of questions and the semantics of answers
… of interrogatives, focusing on the effect of presupposition-triggering expressions like even and Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). In exploring these cases, I aim is to contribute new empirical evidence and theoretical insight pertinent to the general issue of how presuppositions project in …
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Modality and Time in Logical Context
… of the modal items. The test requires a negative presupposition trigger, like 'no longer', which creates a downward-entailing environment in which strengthening need not apply, but which also triggers an upward-entailing presupposition, in which the basic existential meaning can be revealed. I …
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Focus Sensitive Coordination
… together with Karttunen (1973)'s analysis of presupposition projection in disjunction, accounts for the fact that the existential presupposition of even does not project in an or even sentence, but it does in a let alone sentence. It is further shown that Focus Sensitive Coordination has a …
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Animals now and then.
… critically under-supported. All rely on a tacit presupposition that 'animal' is a natural kind term or a substance sortal, a supposition that animalists are under some pressure to reject. Thus, my evaluation prompts a refocusing of the standard defenses of animalism to prioritize defending the …
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