Recent years have seen a surge of experimental approaches to the study of natural language meaning, both to get solid data on subtle phenomena hard to assess through introspection, and to understand how abstract characterizations of linguistic knowledge relate to real-time cognitive processes in language comprehension. The present paper reviews work in one of the most recent areas to see extens...

There are two foundational questions to ask about presupposition: What is it? And where does it come from? The philosophical work which has most influenced linguists' understanding of presupposition is that of Robert Stalnaker (Stalnaker 1973, 1974, 2002). One aspect of Stalnaker's work on presupposition is an attempt to decouple these two questions. Stalnaker does this by providing a character...

Presupposition relations between verbs are not very well covered in existing lexical semantic resources. We propose a weakly supervised algorithm for learning presupposition relations between verbs that distinguishes five semantic relations: presupposition, entailment, temporal inclusion, antonymy and other/no relation. We start with a number of seed verb pairs selected manually for each semant...

To address complications involving ambiguity, presupposition and implicature, three processes underlying natural language interpretation are isolated: translation, entailment and attunement. A meta-language integrating these processes is outlined, elaborating on a proof-theoretic approach to presupposition. §

Many current pragmatic approaches to presupposition, beginning at least with Stalnaker (1974), are based on a notion of felicity. Presuppositions are requirements a sentence places upon a context for an utterance of that sentence to be felicitous. These requirements in turn are induced by the presence of certain presupposition triggers, such as lexical items like factive verbs, or constructions...

We discuss a treatment of VP-ellipsis resolution in DRT in general, and particularly cases where the source clause of the elliptical VP contains presupposition triggers. We propose to restrain VP-elfipsis resolution by presupposition neutralization. We view presupposition as a kind of anaphora, with the ability to accommodate an antecedent if not provided by discourse. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n...

According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker (2002, 2009), speakers involved in a verbal interaction have a number of different propositional attitudes towards their presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in ac...