A central aspect of language comprehension is that hearers integrate incoming linguistic content both with the rest of the current sentence and the larger discourse context. Presuppositions crucially interact with both intraand inter-sentential context in intricate ways, which makes their study especially useful in this regard. We present a series of experiments investigating the time-course of...

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Various views exist on the kind of meaning that the exhaustivity component of clefts corresponds to, and therefore on the status that clefts have when exhaustivity is violated. In particular, two semantic theories have recently been spelled out in some detail. According to Velleman et al. (2012), (1) carries the presupposition that it’s not the case that both the truck and something else are bl...

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...

While an enormous amount of research has been done on the deficient conversation skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), little is known about their performance on presuppositions, a domain of knowledge that is crucial for successful communication. This study investigated the comprehension of four types of presupposition, namely existential, factive, lexical and structural p...

We present a semantic framework which integrates a compositional version of Discourse Representation Theory, Van der Sandt's presupposition theory, and a treatment of focus in the style of Rooth's Alternative Semantics. We will discuss the semantics of focusing particles like too and only within this framework. The function of these particles is maintaining coherence in discourse or dialogue. T...

The common ground theory of presupposition has been dominant since the seventies (Stalnaker 1974, 1978, 2002). This theory has resulted from a view of communication as transfer between minds. In this view interlocutors presume that speakers speak cooperatively, they infer that they have intentions and beliefs that are necessary to make sense of their speech acts, and treat such entities as pree...

This paper proposes the use of dependent types for pragmatic phenomena such as pronoun binding and presupposition resolution as a typetheoretic alternative to formalisms such as Discourse Representation Theory and Dynamic Semantics.

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...