This article starts off with the observation that in certain cases, presuppositions triggered by an element inside a question nucleus may fail to project. In fact, what looks like coordinated structures involving polar questions, presupposition projection patterns are exactly parallel is observed when corresponding assertions coordinated. The further shows these facts do not fall out straightfo...

Previous work has presented an accurate natural logic model for natural language inference. Other work has demonstrated the effectiveness of computing presuppositions for solving natural language inference problems. We extend this work to create a system for correctly computing lexical presuppositions and their interactions within the natural logic framework. The combination allows our system t...

Abstract Moral equality—the idea that ‘we’ all have equal moral worth, our interests ought to count for the same, and we possess same bundle of basic rights—is one most central principles liberal thought, being regularly drawn on as a presupposition political inquiry. Perhaps because it is so often relied presupposition, however, equality more assumed than argued for. When for, common tactic ap...

the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

Although it is widely acknowledged that context influences a variety of pragmatic phenomena, it is not clear how best to articulate this notion of context and thereby explain the nature of its influence. In this paper, we target contextual alternatives that are evoked via focus placement and test how the same contextual manipulation can influence three different phenomena that involve pragmatic...

The goal of this thesis is to account for distributional patterns of given and new items in Czech, especially their word order. The system proposed here has four basic components: (i) syntax, (ii) economy, (iii) interpretation, and (iv) reference set computation. The approach belongs to the family of interface driven approaches. The syntactic part of the thesis introduces a free syntactic movem...

There are three ways to refer to a fact from the complement of a factive verb: 1) via abstract object anaphoric reference, or, with a full sentential complement that will be interpreted either 2) as a bound presupposition or 3) as triggering a presupposition of a fact that will have to be accommodated. Spoken corpus examples reveal that these three possibilities differ in relation to the type o...