Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence
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چکیده
Abstract Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise mysterious unassertability a variety sentences. At core MP is idea that speakers are urged to use sentence ψ over ϕ if contributes same new information , yet carries stronger presupposition. While has been refined many ways throughout years, most (if not all) its formulations have retained this characterisation MP-competition. Recently, however, empirical adequacy questioned light certain newly discovered cases infelicitous, despite meeting MP-competition conditions. This led some researchers broaden scope MP, extending it competition between sentences which contextually equivalent (Spector Sudo Linguistics Philosophy 40(5):473–517, 2017) whose presuppositions satisfied context (Anvari Proceedings Semantics Linguistic Theory 28, 711–726, 2018; Manuscript, IJN-ENS, 2019). In paper, we present body evidence showing these sometimes too liberal, restrictive: they overgenerate infelicity for felicitous while leaving minimally different unaccounted for. We propose alternative, implicature-based approach stemming from Magri (PhD dissertation, MIT, 2009), Meyer 2013), Marty 2017), reintroduces contextual equivalence presupposition satisfaction form through notion relevance. shown classical novel cases. Yet latter remain problematic well. end paper with systematic comparison approaches MP-like phenomena, covering both All all, issue how properly restrict phenomena remains important challenge all accounts literature.
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Language Semantics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1572-865X', '0925-854X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-021-09176-0