Nicht lieferbar
The Inheritance of Presupposition
Versandkostenfrei!
Nicht lieferbar
Main description:This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 6;projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in evry case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turnin...
Main description:
This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 6;projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in evry case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the 6;projection problem' upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate accunt that any previously proposed.
Table of contents:
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The structure of given information
- 1.1 Worlds
- 1.2 Truth in a world
- 1.3 Given information
- 1.4 Linguistic Processing
- 1.5 The dynamics of given information
- 2. Presupposition
- 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition
- 2.2 Sentential presupposition
- 3. The presupposition of Complex sentences
- 3.1 Simple sentences and holes
- 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions
- 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering
- 3.4 Complex cases of filtering
- 3.5 Plugs
- 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents
- 4. A performance theory of presupposition
- 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features
- 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures
- 4.3 Normal assumptions about the way in which presuppositions are satisfied
- 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Index of abbreviations
This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 6;projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in evry case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the 6;projection problem' upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate accunt that any previously proposed.
Table of contents:
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The structure of given information
- 1.1 Worlds
- 1.2 Truth in a world
- 1.3 Given information
- 1.4 Linguistic Processing
- 1.5 The dynamics of given information
- 2. Presupposition
- 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition
- 2.2 Sentential presupposition
- 3. The presupposition of Complex sentences
- 3.1 Simple sentences and holes
- 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions
- 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering
- 3.4 Complex cases of filtering
- 3.5 Plugs
- 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents
- 4. A performance theory of presupposition
- 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features
- 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures
- 4.3 Normal assumptions about the way in which presuppositions are satisfied
- 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Index of abbreviations