The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs
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We present an analysis of implicative verbs, complementtaking verbs which induce entailment-like inferences, but which are also claimed to trigger presuppositions. What is presupposed, however, is much more variable than with e.g. factive verbs. Sketching a formal treatment in Logical Description Grammar we consider the role of pragmatic reasoning and accommodation in deriving these presuppositions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011