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...

Presupposition has long history in philosophy of language and linguistic semantics. Recent works linguistics have given a central place to the notion presupposition. It is studied as an essential aspect providing semantic well pragmatic representations. Resultantly, presupposition obtained significant linguists, logicians philosophers spheres interest. been kind unspoken information that accomp...

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...

Three components of determiner meanings – truth conditions, implicatures, and presuppositions – have been identified. One of the major findings in acquisition, related to the truth conditions of the quantifiers, has been that children go through at least two stages of non-adult interpretation of the quantifier every (Philip, 1995). More recently, researchers (Noveck, 2001; Gualmini et al., 2001...

1 Current Issues in Presupposition Theory 2 1.1 Basic Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Semantics vs. Pragmatics and Explanatory Challenges . . . . . . 5 1.2.1 The Triggering Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2.2 The Projection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Distinguishing Types of Presupposition Triggers . . . . . . . . . 11