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 ...

In contrast to classical lexical semantic relations between verbs, such as antonymy, synonymy or hypernymy, presupposition is a lexically triggered semantic relation that is not well covered in existing lexical resources. It is also understudied in the field of corpus-based methods of learning semantic relations. Yet, presupposition is very important for semantic and discourse analysis tasks, g...

Definite phrases are often used to introduce new entities into discourse but the conditions under which this is possible are not well understood. Evans (2005) argued that the definite article may be used to introduce an entity if it is the most relevant of its type in its local frame of reference, dubbing this the “Small world hypothesis.” Additional arguments will be given in support of the Sm...