The additive presupposition of particles like too/even is uncontested, but usually stipulated. This paper proposes to derive it based on two properties. (i) too/even is cross-linguistically focus-sensitive, and (ii) in many languages, too/even builds negative polarity items and freechoice items as well, often in concert with other particles. (i) is the source of its existential presupposition, ...

This paper attempts to overcome certain objections to the idea that Maximize Presupposition! (Heim 1991) is reducible to the theory of implicature.

Based on Baunaz (2011), we distinguish among French wh-words and claim that they are three-way ambiguous: they can involve partitivity, specificity (both are presuppositional) and non-presupposition (where nonpresuppositional means not-specific/not-partitive). In addition to semantic differences, specificity and partitivity are argued to involve different prosody with wh-phrases in-situ. Buildi...

This research is under the pragmatic studies particularly focusing on use of presuppositions found in 12 newspaper car advertisements. The researcher used descriptive method because all data obtained from taglines advertisement displays and reviewed based theory presuppositions. sources include Pikiran Rakyat Pasundan Express, analysis proposed by Yule (1996) about type to find out types freque...