Complexity of Presuppositions in Local Domain

In this paper we would like to deal with interaction of presupposition triggers and show that the binding theory of presupposition comes up with it better than the satisfaction theory. In section 2, the newly developed presupposition conception is introduced. Section 3 explains the Binding Theory in contrast with the Satisfaction Theory. In sections 4 and 5, Kamp's new idea about the treatment of complex interaction of presuppositions is introduced, and it is suggested that his theory can be extended to two other phenomena; linguistic contexts in which presupposition triggers only have narrow scope reading and specificity interpretation of some Japanese NPs. Based on the recent development of DRT approaches on presuppositions, we will deal with floating quantifiers as a special case of specificity phenomena in sections 6 to 8. In section 6, three different configurations of a quantifier and its restriction NP are introduced: the genitive construction, the compound construction and the floating construction. As a preliminary research, we concentrate in section 7 and 8 on the compound construction of floating quantifiers to the effect that comparison with Semantic Incorporation is made to understand non-specificity of the construction more in detail. This will be done first in GQT terms (section 7) and finally as an application of de Swart & Farkas' theory on weak NPs (section 8).