The inheritance of presupposition / John Dinsmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinsmore, John, 1949-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:1.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 2:1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presupposition (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in every case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation.

Contents:

THE INHERITANCE OF PRESUPPOSITION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. THE STRUCTURE OF GIVEN INFORMATION; 1.1 Worlds; 1. 2 Truth in a world; 1. 3 Given information; 1.4 Linguistic processing; 1.5 The dynamics of given information; 2. PRESUPPOSITION; 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition; 2.2 Sentential presuppositions; 3. THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF COMPLEX SENTENCES; 3.1 Simple sentences and holes; 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions; 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering; 3.4 Complex oases of filtering; 3.5 Plugs 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents4. A PERFORMANCE THEORY OF PRESUPPOSITION; 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features; 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures; 4.3 Normal assumptions about the ways in which presuppositions are satisfied; 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions; 5. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX OF ABBREVIATIONS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-35973-1

9786613359735

90-272-8084-3

OCLC:

769342202