Presupposition

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Conventional Implicature

1. Introduction

2. Presuppositions Disbanded

3. Conventional Implicature

4. Descriptive Apparatus

5. Analysis of Even

6. Compound Sentences

7. Final Remarks

Appendix: Revised PTQ Rules

Note

References

A Solution to the Projection Problem

1. The Projection Problem

2. Potential Implicatures

3. Potential Presuppositions

4. Projection

5. Implicatures

6. Presupposition

Acknowledgments

References

A Solution to the Projection Problem for Presupposition

1. Introductory Remarks

2. The Nature and Justification of Semantic Presupposition

3. On Defining the Notion of Presupposition

4. The Solution

5. Factive Presupposition and Its Critics

References

On Presuppositions in Complex Sentences

1. Introduction

2. Presentation of the Approach

3. Further Discussions

4. Toward Formalization of the Role of Constructions on the Abstract Structure Level

5. Toward an Explanation of Conditions A and B

6. Theoretical Implications

References

A New Semantic Computation while Parsing: Presupposition and Entailment

1. Introduction

2. Computing Presuppositions

3. Computing Entailments

4. Compound Sentences

5. A Suggestion about the Lexicon

6. Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B: Sample Output

References

Katz and Langendoen on Presupposition

In Defense of the Truth Value Gap

1. Introduction

2. The King of France as a Fiction

3. Strawson and Aboutness

4. Cross-World Relations

5. World Shifting and Other Pragmatic Effects

6. Conclusion

References

Presuppositional Grammar

1. Introduction

2. Presuppositional Grammar

3. Filters in Presuppositional Grammar

4. Plugs in Presuppositional Grammar

5. Theoretical Implications

References

Where Presuppositions Come From

Pragmatic Presupposition: Shared Beliefs in a Theory of Irrefutable Meaning

1. Paperism, Pauperism

2. Linguistic Semantics versus Linguistic Pragmatics

3. The Irrefutable Meaning of an Assertion

4. Pragmatic Presupposition

5. Pragmatic Implication

References

How Linguistics Matters to Philosophy: Presupposition, Truth, and Meaning

1. Introduction

2. Generality versus Ambiguity

3. Presupposition and Ambiguity

4. Meaning and Logical Form

5. Linguistics and Philosophy

6. Grice's Pragmatics and Presupposition

7. Other Gricean Views

8. Reservations about the Standard Grice View

9. Grice's Pragmatics and Semantical Generality

10. Conclusion

References

Presupposition, Opacity, and Ambiguity

Ordered Entailments: An Alternative to Presuppositional Theories

1. The Presupposition Problem

2. Preliminary Remarks on Linguistic Ordering

3. Variable Substitution, Stress, and the Ordering of Entailments

4. Pragmatic Interpretation

Acknowledgments

References

On Representing Event Reference

1. Synopsis

2. Referential Presupposition and Factives

3. References to Individuals and Events

4. The Grammar of Facts and Events

5. On Representing Fact Reference

Appendix: Implications for Montague Grammar

References

Truth-Value Gaps, Many Truth Values, and Possible Worlds

1. Models for Implication

2. A Metalanguage Model for Presupposition

3. An Object-Language Model for Presupposition

4. Addendum

References

Presupposition and Discourse Structure

1. Pragmatic Presupposition

2. Definite Descriptions

References

Bibliography of Works Dealing with Presupposition

Author Index

Subject Index

Word (and Expression) Index